Architectural Brilliance: The World’s Most Breathtaking Bridges
| October 8, 2018
Leonardo da Vinci Bridge, Norway
The genius of Leonardo da Vinci knows no bounds. Take, for example, Norway’s Leonardo da Vinci Bridge.
Roughly 500 years ago, in 1502, da Vinci drafted up plans for a self-sustaining bridge and handed them off to the powers that be to get the thing constructed. The bridge was never made, and the plans were all but lost. Then, in 1952, the plans were discovered in Istanbul’s national archives.
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Norway would go on to construct the historic deck arch bridge in 2001, for use as a pedestrian crossing over European route E18 in the town of As, Norway. The Leonardo da Vinci Bridge “is the first time any of Leonardo’s architectural and civil engineering designs has been built.”
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