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  COME VEDERE L'ARCHITETTURA CONTEMPORANEA HOW TO SEE CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
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Storebælt - Great Belt
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PROGETTISTA
 
 
Dissing+Weitling | COWI
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MATERIALI
 
acciaio, cemento armato

Piloni in cemento armato, cavi in acciaio.

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LOCALIZZAZIONE
 
Continente
Europa
Nazione
Danimarca [Danmark]
Regione
Sjælland
Municipalità
Korsør
Città
Korsør
Indirizzo
Vestmotorvejen E20 (Fynske Motorvej)
 
 
Sito web
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MAPPA
 
 
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TIPOLOGIA
 
URBANISTICA E PROGETTAZIONE URBANA
Infrastrutture di trasporto e viabilità
Ponti, viadotti, strade sopraelevate
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CRONOLOGIA
 
Progetto
1988 - 1998    
Realizzazione
1991 - 1998
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PREMI
 
2006
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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RIFERIMENTI BIBLIOGRAFICI
 
 
Bernhard Graf, Bridges that Changed the World, Prestel, München 2002, pp. 110-111
Martha Torres Arcila, Bridges/Ponts/Brücken, Atrium, Mexico City 2002, pp. 284-289
Matthew Wells, 30 Bridges, Laurence King, 2002, pp. 80-85

tr.ger.: 30 Brücken, Callwey Verlag, München 2002, pp. 80-85.
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
Mads Stage, The Great Belt Seasons, COWI Consulting Engineers and Planners S.A., 1997
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COMMITTENTE
 
 
AS Storebæltsforbindelsen
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IMPORTO
 
 
$ 3,500,000,000
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DATI
DIMENSIONALI
 
Lunghezza
totale km. 6,800
campata unica km. 1,624
Altezza
piloni ml. 254
Numero
4 corsie stradali
2 binari ferroviari
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STRUTTURISTA
 
 
Ben C. Gerwick Inc. - E. Pihl & Søn AS
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ARCHITETTURA DEL PAESAGGIO
 
 
Jørgen Vesterholt
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STAFF
 
Progetto
Dissing+Weitlin
Gestione del progetto
Tony Gee & Partners
Consulente strutturale
Ben C. Gerwick Inc. (progetto)
E. Pihl & Søn AS (costruzione)
Aerodinamica e resistenza agli agenti atmosferici
Danish Maritime Institute
Consulenza
William Brown
 
 
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