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Arthur J. Ravenel, Jr. Bridge Cooper River Bridge


Arthur J. Ravenel, Jr. Bridge Cooper River Bridge
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Arthur J Ravenel 3

The longest cable-stayed bridge in North America opened in July 2005 connecting the bustling port city of Charleston and Mount Pleasant in South Carolina. The Cooper River Bridge awe-struck by the number of independent processes: building a cable, placing concrete road sections, balancing the bridge…and so on. The project design criteria called for a 100-year service life solved by various techniques including the use of low permeability concrete combined with uncoated reinforcing steel.

Architect: MacDonald Architects, San Francisco Engineer of Record: Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas,Inc., New York, Location: USA
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CANAL BRIDGE MAGDEBURG


CANAL BRIDGE MAGDEBURG
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The aqua duct across the River Elbe took around six years to build and costed around half a billion euros. Taking six years to build and costing around half a billion euros, the massive undertaking will connect Berlin's inland harbour with the ports along the Rhine river. At the centre of the project is Europe's longest water bridge measuring in just shy of a kilometre at 918 meters. The huge tub to transport ships over the Elbe took 24,000 metric tons of steel and 68,000 cubic meters of concrete to build.

Architect: Prof. Hering, Braunschweig, Location: Magdeburg Germany
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Dubai International Convention Centre


Dubai International Convention Centre
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The Dubai International Convention Centre (DICC) was completed in January 2003 to complete the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) conglomeration. The development includes two hotels, office tower, catering centre, public concourse and car parking facilities. The site of the DICC is part of the Dubai World Trade Centre on Sheikh Zayed Road to the south-west of the city centre in the heart of one of the key business districts. Access is by road and delegates will arrive by car, taxi, coach, or directly from one of the adjoining hotels. No other means of public transport are available.

Architect: Robert Mathew Johnson Marshall (RMJM), Location: Dubai
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Dubai Maritime City


Dubai Maritime City
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Aerial View - Full City 1

The Dubai Maritime City (DMC), when completed in 2012, will be a 227 hectare fully-equipped and multifunctional maritime centre providing a high level of infrastructure and a business environment for the global maritime industry and related sectors. The concept for the DMC was driven by the needs of both local and international marine and maritime communities for a dedicated hub. It will provide a strategic location for the industry sectors across the spectrum of maritime business - management, services, retail and recreation, education and research, ship repair and maintenance, yacht repair and maintenance. DMC will be a mixed-use development for the maritime industry, comprising industrial, commercial, residential and leisure facilities housed on a man-made peninsula between Port Rashid and Dubai Dry Docks.

Architect: Mouchel Parkman , Location: Dubai
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Harbouring Development, Dubai


Harbouring Development, Dubai
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Considered the New Gateway of Dubai, The Dubai Waterfront has been carefully crafted and developed by an international consortium of the world’s best architects, planners and urban developers under the direction of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and UAE Minister of Defence and Nakheel, the government held developer with an underlying goal to create a destination never seen before in Dubai, or the world. Larger than the island of Manhattan, the development will reconfigure the map of this tiny desert emirate by adding 500 miles of man-made waterfront.

Architect: Dubai Water Front Company, Location: Dubai
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RATP Bus Centre


RATP Bus Centre
The cube-like form of the building is an interpretation of the warehouse typology.
The cube-like form of the building is an interpretation of the warehouse typology.

Located in the industrial landscape in Thiais, Paris, the site for the RATP Bus Centre is surrounded with warehouses, industrial buildings, wide streets and junctions. Designed by Emmanuel Combarel and Dominique Marrec of ECDM, the building is in a perpetual state of flux due to its function as the hub of road transport network with 300 buses and 800 bus drivers passing through it everyday. In addition to this, it also accommodates the administrative staff to manage the centre.

Architect: Emmanuel COMBAREL Dominique MARREC Architects , Location: Thiais, Paris
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RIO-ANTIRIO BRIDGE


RIO-ANTIRIO BRIDGE
01_The piers of the Rio-Antirio bridge can slide on their gravel beds to accommodate tectonic movement.
01_The piers of the Rio-Antirio bridge can slide on their gravel beds to accommodate tectonic movement.

The Rio-Antirio bridge, officially called ‘Charilaos Trikoupis’ bridge after the statesman who first envisioned it, is a cable-stayed bridge crossing the Gulf of Corinth near Patras, linking the town of Rio on the Peloponnese to Antirio on mainland Greece. Planned in mid-1990s, the bridge was completed in 2004, a week before the opening of the 2004 summer Olympics in Athens. Site preparation and dredging began in July 1998, and construction of the massive supporting pylons in 2000. With these complete in 2003, work began on the traffic decks and supporting cables.

Architect: Berdj Mikaelian , Location: Greece
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The International Space Station


The International Space Station
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The International Space Station is one of the most talked about construction activity today. The official reasons to build the station are to forge international ties and conduct research in microgravity conditions. When planned construction is completed, the ISS will be 290ft (88.5 m) long, have a wingspan of 396ft (120.7 m), and 143ft (43.5 m) tall. Its mass will be nearly a million pounds (454,000 kg), and it will support a crew of seven. About 100,000 contractors and space agency personnel in 16 countries are working on the orbital outpost that will eventually span more than 350ft (106 meters).

Architect: NASA , Location: Space
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The Vedaville Project


The Vedaville Project
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Unsustainability begins from the very moment the first brick is laid or a human settlement plan is developed. Not to say that one should therefore stop building. One has to — but can nature’s bounties be used in a more appropriate manner? Can human settlements be planned in a more humane manner respecting the environment and the needs of man? Can human settlement design be seen as a partnership between man and nature? These principles were applied in the Vedaville Project in Jamaica.

Architect: Anil Laul , Location: Jamaica
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Tri-Countries Bridge


Tri-Countries Bridge
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In the border triangle of southwest Germany, a new pedestrian bridge across the Rhine River was opened in March 2007. The slender arch bridge with a span of 230 m connects Germany and France near the border to Switzerland. A result of a July 2001 competition the bridge is located near Basel, in the triangle of the three countries Germany, France and Switzerland. The basic requirements of the Franco-German jury were the functionality / safety, the ship impact, the architectural quality / originality, the cost, the buildability and the efficient use. The design team was Feichtinger Architects, Paris and Leonhardt, Andrä and Partner, Berlin, won the competition.

Architect: Association Feichtinger Architectes, Paris and Leonhardt, Andrä and Partner, Berlin, Location: Germany, France, Switzerland
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