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In France, they've just completed the highest (cable) bridge in the world. It's a great design of fanned cables on the top.

I think the bridge costed about half a billion dollars in total, and was built in 3 years.

Dexigner: "The bridge was designed by the English architect, Lord Norman Foster. "

Coincidentally, the company that built the Eiffel Tower is the one that built this bridge. For perspective, each support that holds this bridge is larger than the Eiffel Tower.

More pictures are available here:

http://www.structurae.net/structures/data/...cfm?id=s0000351

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[Edit, I typoed Millau in the title of this topic, please change]

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In France, they've just completed the highest (cable) bridge in the world. It's a great design of fanned cables on the top.

I think the bridge costed about half a billion dollars in total, and was built in 3 years.

Dexigner: "The bridge was designed by the English architect, Lord Norman Foster. "

Coincidentally, the company that built the Eiffel Tower is the one that built this bridge. For perspective, each support that holds this bridge is larger than the Eiffel Tower.

More pictures are available here:

http://www.structurae.net/structures/data/...cfm?id=s0000351

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Image

[Edit, I typoed Millau in the title of this topic, please change]

<FC: Done.>

It's visually boring if not underwhelming.

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Howdy All,

I know this is a really old thread, but whilst perusing the webpage of my favorite local talk radio station I stumbled upon this PowerPoint presentation about the Viaduc de Millau.

Personally I find it to be aesthetically very pleasing. In fact my first thought upon viewing the pictures was a desire to drive upon it. Furthermore the sheer engineering of it is amazing, at least to me the non-engineer.

Here I think is the link, http://www.610wtvn.com/cc-common/mlib/1279..._1188929589.pps

Ok so I am not allowed to attach the file, but if you cut and paste the link it seems to work.

Rob

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