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Storebælt - Great Belt
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TYPOLOGY |
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TOWN PLANNING AND URBAN DESIGN | Transport and road system infrastructures
Bridges, viaducts, causeway
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1988 - 1998
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1991 - 1998 |
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| 2006 |
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Kulturkanonen [Danish Culture Canon]
Arkitektur [Architecture]
Kulturministeriet
The committee's justification
The East Bridge is Denmark’s largest construction project. The elements of the East Bridge are simply and elegantly shaped. The relationship between the pylons, roadway and cabling is beautifully balanced when viewed from the sea and from Zealand, and when travelling across the bridge. The height of the pylons contrasts with the length of the roadway, and the roadway’s slight arc contrasts with the large curvature of the cables. All of the lines come together to form a delightful tension for the observer. The bridge’s line over the belt reinforces the sculptural effect and creates space and introversion for the entire curved shape of the East Bridge.
The east bridge represents a graceful, fully optimised design on an enormous scale. Spacious, scenic, magnificent – politically visionary – a successful combination of form and function and an illustration of collaboration between wise minds.
Two complete arches on the landscape, stretched between two enormous bridge towers, meeting above the ocean’s horizon. The bridge synchronously radiates a kind of robust fragility, and simultaneously fills us with a sense of humanity’s insignificance and greatness.
As you drive between the bridge towers, you experience a cathedral-like piousness and a magnificent harmony between sky, sea, light and the bridge’s own aesthetics in terms of material, colours and details. The bridge symbolises the story of Denmark as an island nation. It suggests new relationships in Danish social and familial patterns, and challenges the regional, historical and cultural differences of the regions in a new era. |
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BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |
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| Bernhard Graf, Bridges that Changed the World, Prestel, München 2002, pp. 110-111 |
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| Martha Torres Arcila, Bridges/Ponts/Brücken, Atrium, Mexico City 2002, pp. 284-289 |
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Matthew Wells, 30 Bridges, Laurence King, 2002, pp. 80-85
tr.ger.: 30 Brücken, Callwey Verlag, München 2002, pp. 80-85. |
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Judith Dupré, Bridges, Black Dog & Leventhal, New York 1997, pp. 112-113
tr.ger.: Brücken, Könemann, Köln 1998, pp. 112-113
tr.fr.: Les Ponts , Könemann, Köln 1998, pp. 112-113 |
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| Mads Stage, The Great Belt Seasons, COWI Consulting Engineers and Planners S.A., 1997 |
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total km. 6,800
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4 motor lanes
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E. Pihl & Søn AS (constructon) |
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