Bridges
Why are there so few bridges across Amsterdam’s largest river?
What is Amsterdam famous for? Besides being Europe’s Sin City, and having one million bicycles, it’s also known as 'Venice…
Tubes, bridges & sewers: The centuries-old infrastructure Londoners still use today
An accusation often levelled at the modern era is that it’s one of waste: that we are a throw-away society,…
Extreme weather and climate change are threatening bridges with collapse
The recent collapse of a bridge in Grinton, North Yorkshire, raises lots of questions about how prepared we are for…
“A story of incompetence, arrogance, privilege and power”: A brief history of the Garden Bridge
The line-by-line account of their spending reveals £161,000 spent on their website and £400,000 on a gala fundraising event, amongst…
An official and objective ranking of the seven bridges linking Newcastle and Gateshead
I’ve just got back from Newcastle. It was completely brilliant – great architecture, great cultural offering, great seaside, great pubs…
Boris Johnson wants a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland. But he’s not the first to suggest it.
It wouldn’t be a Boris Johnson political intervention if it didn’t involve a massive and ultimately highly unlikely bridge. As…
More than a bridge: on Newcastle and Gateshead’s Tyne Bridge at 90
On 10 October 1928, tens of thousands of citizens of Newcastle and Gateshead lined the streets as King George V…
Bridging the divide: landscapes and lawmakers in Ronda, home of Spanish romanticism
Perched on a mesa in the middle of a wide Andalusian plateau, Ronda is a sleepy Spanish town much like…
How do forensic engineers investigate bridge collapses, like the one in Miami?
On 15 March, a 950-ton partially assembled pedestrian bridge at Florida International University in Miami suddenly collapsed onto the busy…
Boris Johnson’s channel bridge would be a car crash in more ways than one
As Boris Johnson’s Churchillian dream of a road bridge across the Channel Tunnel emerged and then quickly disappeared, it got…