Zaha Hadid Architects and ETH Zurich create 3D-printed concrete bridge in Venice
Zaha Hadid Architects and ETH Zurich have built a 3D-printed concrete footbridge named Striatus in Venice that is freestanding and assembled without mortar. More
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Commenter says 3D-printed bridge "looks like it was randomly plopped onto the site"
In this week's comments update, readers are debating a 3D-printed pedestrian bridge that has opened in Amsterdam. More
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Joris Laarman's 3D-printed stainless steel bridge finally opens in Amsterdam
A 12-metre 3D-printed pedestrian bridge designed by Joris Laarman and built by Dutch robotics company MX3D has opened in Amsterdam six years after the project was launched. More
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro builds looping steel Park Union Bridge in Colorado
Architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has built the 250-foot-long Park Union Bridge in Colorado Springs that connects to the US Olympic and Paralympic Museum. More
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Fully transparent Sky Pool provides "a swim like no other" between two housing blocks in London
Architecture studio HAL has created a 35-metre-high transparent swimming pool bridge between two buildings at the Embassy Gardens development in Battersea, London. More
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California students build Arroyo Bridge using collaborative robotics
Students at the University of Southern California's School of Architecture have designed and built a complex bridge in Los Angeles using a semi-robotic process that slashed construction waste. More
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World's "longest pedestrian suspension" bridge opens in Portugal
A pedestrian suspension bridge that claims to be the longest in the world, named 516 Arouca and measuring 516 metres in length, has opened in northern Portugal. More
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Viewing platforms tops New Grand Avenue Park Bridge by LMN Architects
LMN Architects has built a viewpoint on top of the concrete and weathering steel New Grand Avenue Park Bridge in Everett, Washington. More
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Safdie Architects to expand Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Safdie Architects is set to increase the size of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas by 50 per cent with a design that includes two new galleries connected by a bridge. More
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Tonkin Liu creates swing bridge to access Dinosaur Island in Crystal Palace Park
Architecture studio Tonkin Liu has built a biomimicry-informed pivoting bridge to an island containing 19th-century concrete models of dinosaurs in Crystal Palace, south London. More
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Cycle lanes to be built on New York's Brooklyn and Queensboro Bridges
New York City's mayor has revealed "radical" plans to turn vehicle lanes into cycling paths on two bridges across the East River and build five bicycle streets across the city in response to the pandemic. More
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Dezeen's top 10 bridges of 2020
Continuing our review of 2020, we spotlight 10 of the most interesting bridges unveiled this year, including Renzo Piano's Genoa bridge, a curved cycling bridge in Copenhagen and the world's longest glass-bottomed bridge. More
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Foster + Partners presents idea for double-decker Hammersmith Bridge
Architecture firm Foster + Partners has developed a proposal for repairing London's Hammersmith Bridge while reopening it by inserting a separate double-decker road raised over the original structure. More
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Studio Curiosity covers bridge in ribbon rainbow to show support for NHS
Design platform Studio Curiosity worked with local residents in east London to wrap a bridge in a rainbow of ribbons as a "message of hope" during the coronavirus pandemic. More
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Cobe and Dissing+Weitling design futuristic footbridge for Køge Nord Station
Køge Nord Station crosses two rail lines and eight motorway lanes and was created by Cobe and Dissing+Weitling for a new high-speed train line from Copenhagen. More
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Schwartz Besnosoff Architects creates entrance-gate bridge for Israeli university
Israel studio Schwartz Besnosoff Architects has completed the Technion Entrance Gate for the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, which also acts as a bridge that connects the campus with a city promenade. More
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WilkinsonEyre and Urban Agency design curved Lille Langebro cycling bridge in Copenhagen
London architecture studio WilkinsonEyre and Copenhagen-based Urban Agency have designed the Lille Langebro bicycle bridge as a convenient route across Copenhagen's inner harbour for cyclists and pedestrians. More
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World's longest glass-bottomed bridge opens in China
Chinese studio Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University has completed a 526-metre-long glass-bottomed bridge in the Huangchuan Three Gorges Scenic Area of southern China. More
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Useful Studio creates arched weathering steel Chiswick Park Footbridge
London-based Useful Studio has connected a tube station to a business park in Chiswick, west London, with a pedestrian bridge made from weathering steel. More
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O'Donnell + Tuomey creates timber and concrete pedestrian bridge at University College Cork
Architecture studio O'Donnell + Tuomey used rows of laminated timber to create Cavanagh Bridge, which has been built over Ireland's River Lee to improve connections to University College Cork. More
