Viaduc De Millau

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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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Looks like this also caught an HBL’ers attention today. If you subscribe to that digest, you can read in more detail.

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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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It’s visually boring if not underwhelming.

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It’s visually boring if not underwhelming.

Your conclusion is clear, but you offer no reasons. In other words, how did you arrive at your conclusions?

Can you offer, as an example, a comparable structure that is exciting, even overwhelming?

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When I first saw this great new creation on TV I thought of sails, of lightness, then of guiltless, free, unburdened happiness. What a beautiful, practical, meaningful achievement!

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Viaduc de Millau

White steel sails beyond the clouds,

Straight and perfect, light;

Once aimless hills now stand together

To bear man’s vision bright.

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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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I stumbled upon this PowerPoint presentation about the Viaduc de Millau.

Nice show! I like the bridge and I think it looks inspiring.