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Ingenious and life-enhancing: a tale of two new London footbridges
The Guardian   19 February 2023   UK   London  
Photograph: Jim Stephenson
<p>All the world loves a bridge that moves. Usually, the point of a bridge is that it is fixed &ndash; when so much trouble has been taken to overcome gravity and tame nature, instability is the last thing that you want &ndash; so there is surprise and delight ...
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London’s Sculptural Rolling Bridge is a design icon
highways.today   02 November 2017   UK   London  
London’s Sculptural Rolling Bridge is a design icon
<p>In 2004, a pedestrian bridge with a difference was opened in London spanning an inlet off the main canal at Merchant Square, Paddington Basin.</p> <p>The Rolling Bridge was conceived by designer Thomas Heatherwick, who was influenced by the fluid, coiling ...
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M20 motorway reopens after bridge collapse
BBC NEWS   29 August 2016   Kent   United Kingdom  
Drivers described slamming on their brakes and hearing the collision
<p class="story-body__introduction">The M20 in Kent has fully reopened in both directions following a crash and collapse of a footbridge.</p><p>The bridge, between junctions three and four, came down on the London-bound carriageway on Saturday after it was ...
Balfour Beatty has been awarded a contract to build a £42m student accommodation tower block in Vauxhall, south London
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<p>The 33-storey building will house 454 students for specialist developer/operator Urbanest.</p><p>Balfour Beatty has previously delivered 2,520 units across five central London schemes for Urbanest as part of a long-running partnership.</p><p>Construction ...
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