From land to water - how modern architects learnt to love the bridge (Guardian Unlimited)
What makes a great city? One part of any definition almost certainly includes water. And where you have water, human ingenuity insists on spanning it. So, great cities always have bridges and tunnels. It's hilarious, but telling, that Manhattanites stigmatise outsiders as 'bridge and tunnel folk'.
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How architects learnt to love bridges (Guardian Unlimited)
Culture: Once the preserve of geeky civil engineers, bridge design has recently become one of the coolest games in town, writes Stephen Bayley
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