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English Bridge Architecture News – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

21 Mar 2017
Bath Quays Bridge Design Competition Planning Permission News
Design: Marc Mimram (France) with Webb Yates (UK)

image by architects
Planning consented granted, with construction due to being with an opening by the end of 2018.

10 Mar 2017
Upper Orwell Crossings Project – Design Contest Winner, near Ipswich, Suffolk, Southeast England
Design: Foster + Partners, Architects

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Foster + Partners selected as Architectural Team to join the Upper Orwell Crossings Project, Ipswich. Following a competition run in partnership with Suffolk County Council, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Competitions is pleased to announce that Foster + Partners has been selected as the architectural team to join the Upper Orwell Crossings project in Ipswich.

Orwell Crossings Project Ipswich Competition

3 Dec 2015
Tintagel Castle Bridge Contest concept designs, Cornwall, southwest England

28 Jul 2015
Tintagel Castle Bridge Contest, Cornwall Competition

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Tintagel Castle’s thirteenth-century ruins, set among sea-bitten precipices, distinguish one of the most spectacular historic sites in Britain. A place of elemental power and beauty, Tintagel is an outstanding example of a man-made monument interacting with a natural feature. Tintagel’s natural land-bridge, a slender isthmus linking the headland (also known as Island) to the mainland, has been its defining feature for 5,000 years. The Cornish name Din Tagell, means literally, the Fortress of the Narrow Entrance. This physical connection – a tenuous rocky link much-eroded over the centuries – is the source of its traditions and astonishing cultural resonance.

3 Sep 2015
Architects for Tintagel Castle Bridge Shortlist
English Heritage announced today the six finalist teams who will proceed to the second stage of the Tintagel Castle: Bridge Design Competition.
The teams are led by architects or engineers and are (in alphabetical order with lead consultant first):
– Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes with Terrell (France)
– Marks Barfield Architects with Flint and Neill (UK)
– Ney & Partners Civil Engineers with William Matthews Associates, Ettwein Bridges and Waagner Biro (Belgium)
– Niall McLaughlin Architects with Price and Myers, and Max Fordham (UK)
– RFR and Jean-François Blassel Architecte, with Engineers HRW, and WSP (France)
– WilkinsonEyre with Atelier One (UK)
Tintagel Castle Bridge Competition

30 Jul 2013
Castle Green Bridge, Taunton, Somerset, south west England
Design: Moxon Architects

photo : Simon Kennedy
Moxon Architects have completed Castle Green Bridge, located in the grounds of a scheduled ancient monument, in the market town of Taunton. The Bridge has been shortlisted for a BCIA [British Construction Industry Award] as well as being shortlisted for an RIBA award and was the winner of the ACE [Association of Consulting Engineers] ‘Constructing Excellence Award’.

18 Jun 2012
Twin Sails Bridge Poole, Poole, Dorset
Design: Architect: Wilkinson Eyre ; Lighting Design: Speirs + Major

photograph © Dave Morris / Speirs + Major
A project that had been 30 years in the making, Poole’s civic leaders believe their new Twin Sails Bridge is the key to the regeneration of the town. The challenge for lighting designers Speirs + Major was to use light to encourage people to engage with the structure after dark, creating a beautiful civic feature both when the bridge is open and when it is closed.

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

photograph : James Newton
The brief called for an iconic structure as part of the Stockton-on-Tees regeneration of the North Shore site. The resulting footbridge now links the north and south shores and provides better access to business and jobs in the area.