Home, Home on the Bridge

The habitable bridge, out of favor since the Renaissance, has been making a bit of a comeback. After the I-670 cap opened in Columbus, Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid designed this stunning habitable bridge in Zaragoza, Spain, completed in 2008 (pictured above). The following year, architect Steven Holl, whose designs often include sky-borne passages, completed an apartment complex in Beijing where a swimming pool, bookstore and cafe hang between buildings. Plans are underway for habitable bridges over highways in Washington, D.C., and New Haven, Connecticut, and architects and planners have proposed similar ideas in Montreal, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Acapulco, and London.

Henry Grabar

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