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Bridge Architecture : Architectural Structures

Major crossing projects from around the world.

post updated 8 January 2026

We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Bridge Architecture. We cover completed bridges, new crossing designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across the world. The focus is on contemporary bridges.

Architecture of Bridges

We have 4 pages of Bridge Design selections:

Contemporary Bridge Designs : A-E

Bridge Architecture : F-P (this page)

Bridge Structures : Q-S

Bridge Designs : T-Z

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Major Bridge Architecture

Recent Bridge Design in 2024 to 2025 additions to this page:

29 October 2025
Grand Canal Gateway Bridge, Hangzhou, China
Architecture: Zaha Hadid Architects

photo : Xue Liang

24 October 2025
Pedestrian Modular Glass Bridge, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Design: Massive Form

image courtesy of The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA

27 April 2025
Medlow Bath Station and Footbridge, New South Wales, Australia
Designers: Architecture: DesignInc in collaboration with TZG Architects

1 April 2025
Fareja Pedestrian and Cycling Bridge, Aveiro, Portugal
Architecture: Rómulo Neto Arquitetos

photo : Ivo Tavares Studio

16 March 2025
Kruunusillat Helsinki, Finland
Design: Knight Architects, WSP Finland

photo : Aarni Salomaa
Structural milestone reached on Finland’s tallest bridge.

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6 August 2024
Küstrin-Kietz Rail Crossing, Innovative Bridge Design, River Oder, German / Polish border
Design: Knight Architects

photo : Wilfried Dechau

10 June 2024
The Gordie Howe International Bridge in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Architect: Erik Behrens – AECOM

photos : Diana Paulson and Nev Muftari

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14 Dec 2022
Flanders Longest Bicycle and Pedestrian Bridge, Belgium
Design: ZJA

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9 Aug 2021
Ruyi Bridge Dayuan Park Chengdu, China

5 May 2021
Midtown Viaduct Manhattan, New York City, USA
Architecture: DXA Studio

image Courtesy architects

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21 Jun 2013
Mersey Gateway Bridge, River Mersey, England, UK
Design: FCC Construcción

image from FCC
FCC, the Spanish infrastructure and environmental services group, has been awarded the contract to design, build, finance, maintain and operate the Mersey Gateway Bridge in Liverpool (UK). Worth approximately 600 million pounds, it is FCC’s largest-ever contract in the UK.

1 May 2013
Hassan II Bridge, Rabat, Morocco
Design: Marc Mimran Architecture

photo : Cemal Emden
Linking Rabat and Salé to form an urban hub, the Hassan II Bridge and its associated access works relieve both cities’ historic sites and populations of atmospheric and sound pollution.

2 Apr 2013
Oberhausen Bridge, Ruhr, north west Germany
Design: Schlaich Bergermann and Partner

photo : Roman Mensing
The 406 m long pedestrian bridge across the Rhine-Herne canal is part of the project EMSCHERKUNST 2010. Artist Tobias Rehberger envisioned a colourful ribbon wrapped in a wild, swinging spiral connecting two parks. Initial tests on the technical feasibility soon showed that the spiral, which was supposed to appear as light and vibrant as possible, could not act as support structure for the bridge.

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22 May 2012
Infinity Loop Bridge – Zhuhai Shizimen Bridge Competition, southern China
10 Design + Buro Happold

picture from architects
10 DESIGN and Buro Happold have won the international design competition for the key signature gateway bridge for the new Shizimen Business District in Zhuhai, China. The feature bridge is the gateway entry to south China’s new planned commercial hub and also marks the connection of the Shizimen Canal to the Pearl River Delta.

8 Feb 2012
The Jubilee Bridge London, Chelesea / Battersea, London, UK
One-world design

image from architects
A new connection between Chelsea Harbour and Battersea would be beneficial to the communities, transport links and businesses on both sides of the river. One-world design and Expedition Engineering have progressed designs for the new bridge.

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6 Dec 2011
Lower Hatea Crossing, New Zealand
Knight Architects

image from architects
The bridge comprises a 265 metre long viaduct with a 25m opening section and more than 1.5km of approach roads over geotechnically challenging ground. Initial earth works will begin to pre-load the site of the bridge on both sides of the harbour and construction will continue through to mid 2013.

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10 Aug 2010
Helix Bridge, Singapore
Cox Rayner Architects

photograph : Christopher Frederick Jones
World’s Best Transport Building at World Architecture Festival Awards 2010.
The Helix Bridge is one of the few, if any, bridges in the world to be named after its structure. In addition to its uniqueness of structure and form, it was designed to respond to its particular setting at the opening of the Singapore River to Marina Bay.

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Key Crossing Structures News Archive

London Garden Bridge across the River Thames, London, England, UK
Design: Thomas Heatherwick Studio

image from designers
The Greater London Authority (GLA) is to investigate the £200m Garden Bridge project. The scrapped proposal was promoted under former London Mayor Boris Johnson.

Infinity Bridge, Stockton-on-Tees, north east England, UK
Design: Expedition Engineering

photograph : James Newton

Kurilpa Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Design: Cox Rayner + Arup

photo © David Sandison
Designed by the Queensland division of Australia’s Cox Rayner Architects with Arup, the £35.5 million pedestrian and cycle bridge connects Brisbane’s Central Business District with the city’s South Bank and its major cultural precinct. This is the second project the two practices have collaborated on in the last decade following the completion of the Goodwill Bridge in 2000.

Lee Valley Bridge Designs, Hackney, London, UK
Design: Amin Taha Architects

image from architects
Two bridge designs close to the London Olympics site – both bridges are intended as very economic solutions to long running access problems. The architect was instructed to develop the bridge designs to planning submission level.
Bridge Designs from around the globe, alphabetical:

Gateshead Millennium Bridge, UK
Design: Wilkinson Eyre Architects

photo © Adrian Welch
This river crossing is a pedestrian and cyclist tilt bridge spanning the River Tyne in England. It spans this major English river between Gateshead’s Quays arts quarter and the Quayside of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Glasgow Bridge, Scotland
Design: Richard Rogers Partnership / Atkins

Golden Gate Bridge, USA
Design: Irving F. Morrow / Gertrude C. Morrow

photo © Andrew McRae

Karolina Bridge, Czech Republic
Design: Eva Jiricna Architects

picture from architect

Lee Valley Bridge Designs, London, UK
Amin Taha Architects

image from architects
A new bridge will service the proposed Cricket and Rugby changing facilities and new pitches, relieving the New Community Centre. The proposal economically retains abutments, adds cycle and disabled access through the use of landscaping leaving Currently on site and due for completion within six months.

Lintas Bridge, France
Ian Ritchie Architects

image © Jocelyne Van den Bossche
A thin argon lighting strip reinforces the ‘tension’ of the design, and creates at dusk and evening a ‘virtual ceiling’ across the landscaped courtyard. Two asymmetrical masts suspend a simple braced horizontal steel roof plane, which in turn suspends by cables a horizontal steel floor plane.

Lower Hatea Bridge, New Zealand
Knight Architects

image from architects

Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, USA
Santiago Calatrava

picture : Santiago Calatrava LLC

Passerelle Valmy, Paris, France
DFA | Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes

photo : David Boureau

Peace Bridge Calgary, Canada
Santiago Calatrava

picture : Santiago Calatrava LLC

More new Bridge Designs online soon

Bridge Architecture – No Images

Fabian Way Bridge, Port Tennant, Swansea, Wales, UK
2007
Studio Bednarski

Fenghua Bridge, Tianjin, China
2007
Marc Mimram Architects

Newport City Footbridge – over River Usk, Newport, Wales, UK
2006
Grimshaw with Atkins

Piazzale Roma Bridge, Venice, Italy
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Santiago Calatrava Architects

Puente del Alamillo, Sevilla, Spain
1992
Santiago Calatrava Architects

Calgary Bridge Design Competition

Calgary Bridge Design Contest

image from architect
Calgary Bridge Design Competition

San Diego Coronado Bridge, California, USA – Lighting Contest Winners

image from Peter Fink

Forth Road Bridge

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