Even when they’re built from concrete and steel using proven engineering principles, I still get anxious when crossing…
No longer confined by the limitations of a printed book, the Guinness Book of World Records has infinitely expanded to…
Modern materials engineering allows us to build what looks like precarious glass skywalks perched thousands of feet off…
Old bridges never die, they just cross over to the other side.
There’s a crap ton of steel in broken down bridges and some of that steel gets repurposed into things like turntables.…
A crane collapsed across the span of New York’s Tappan Zee Bridge today, blocking traffic and wreaking havoc on the…
The catastrophic collapse of Washington State’s Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940 launched intensive research into the…
When LA closes a major freeway for construction, the city usually comes up with scary names for it to keep people off…
I don’t know if these wooden planks can be considered a bridge or if they just constitute a poorly made death trap but…
It’s by design that most modern cities grew up around rivers or coastlines. But today, those bodies of water pose…
Cities can learn a lot from Copenhagen’s multimodal ways. But how about this inspiring piece of infrastructure from the…
Remember Carmageddon, LA’s massive freeway widening project that was supposed to paralyze the city? (It didn’t.) The…
One of the largest remaining chunks of San Francisco’s Bay Bridge is coming down tomorrow, as engineers continue to…
This footage from a few years back shows a bridge in Bedfordshire, England getting demolished in less than 15 hours.…
The love lock, that parasitic form of metal graffiti, has a complicated relationship with urban bridges. A new…
The single cable supporting the barely two-year-old eastern span of San Francisco’s Bay Bridge could be facing very…
Before the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges, there was High Bridge, arcing far above the Harlem River to…
No glue. No cables. No steel reinforcements. The only thing keeping this bridge intact is, well, physics.
The sad state of America’s bridges is a perennial topic amongst engineers and a regular talking point for politicians,…
The Golden Gate Bridge’s iconic “International Orange” paint job was a bit of a happy accident. If the United States…
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