Umshiang, a double-decker (soon to be triple-decker) root bridge, is expected to survive several hundred years and can support the weight of 50 people at once.
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Completed in 2004, Heatherwick Studio’s Rolling Bridge provides access to the Grand Union Canal in London’s Paddington Basin.
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Q’eswachaka, one of the last surviving Inca rope bridges, has spanned 124 feet across the Akpurimac canyon for more than 500 years.
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Basket-woven Koori eel traps served as inspiration for Melbourne’s Webb Bridge, designed by world-renowned sculptor Robert Owen.
Steel and local Balau wood curve together to form the spectacular Henderson Waves, the highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore.
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Arching over the Gardon River halfway between Nîmes and Uzès sits the massive Pont du Gard, a limestone aqueduct built by the Romans roughly 2,000 years ago.
