Bridges by Marcus Binney
Building bridges across rivers, canyons, straits, and sea represents one of man's greatest endeavors. It has stretched human ingenuity, engineering, and material technology to their limits. Bridges have altered history by joining communities together, extending trade, and transporting water to villages and cities. This book looks at more than 200 bridges spanning the world and the centuries, including an Inca suspension bridge made from grass ropes; the mile-long Roman aqueduct at Caesarea; Italy's bridges in Venice; England's great Forth Bridge built for the railway; France's famous Millau Viaduct; Spain's Acueducto del Aguila; the awe-inspiring cantilever bridges built by railway engineers across major rivers in North America and India; and the world's longest suspension bridge at Kobe in Japan."Binney's examples are drawn from around the world and across the centuries, from the works of ancient masons and medieval carpenters to projects by contemporary architects and engineers"
* Architecture Today *As Architecture Correspondent to The Times Marcus Binney has followed the design and construction of some of the major bridges of our age, talking to the leading architects and engineers involved, including Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw and Alan Spielmann, as well as engineering practices such as Arups, Brown Beech & Associates, Flint & Neill, RPR and Mott MaDonald. As founder and President of SAVE Britain’s Heritage and chairman of Save Europe’s Heritage he has also taken a keen interest in the preservation and restoration of historic bridges. Marcus Binney lives in St. Lawrence, Jersey, Channel Islands.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781910258170 |
| ISBN 10 | 1910258172 |
| Title | Bridges |
| Author | Marcus Binney |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Gemini Books Group Ltd |
| Year published | 2017-10-05 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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