Image of the day: The rolling bridge


Thomas Heatherwick's Rolling Bridge

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This is a great side view of what northwestern Londoners call “The Rolling Bridge”, a foot bridge designed by Thomas Heatherwick for the Paddington Basin development. The bridge is designed to span a forty-foot expanse, but rolls gracefully up on remote-command through the use of hydraulics.

Here’s a view of the bridge in elegant motion:

The Rolling Bridge retracts