A snaking Shanghai bridge features in today’s Dezeen Weekly newsletter

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features a bridge that incorporates spaces for play, rest and planting.

Brearley Architects + Urbanists (BAU) created a bridge connecting two areas of wetland across Shanghai’s Yuandang Lake.

The 586-metre-long bridge for cyclists and pedestrians is a “hybrid structure”, blending architecture, infrastructure and landscape with the existing pathways and nature on the site.

Commenters are wowed. One said, “This is just gorgeous. I like everything about it.”

Other stories in this week’s newsletter include our latest lookbook, featuring ten homes with beautiful courtyards at the heart of the interior, Adidas’ floating recycled-plastic tennis court and news of a planning law in Brighton and Hove, England, that calls for new buildings to include special bricks for bees.

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