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The Peace Bridge is a pedestrian/cyclist bridge that spans the Bow River in Calgary. The Bow River is an approximately 700km long river that rises in the Canadian Rockies and flows halfway through Calgary. The river partially freezes over in winter, so the bridge then spans a river covered in snow and ice.
Construction of the bridge began in March 2010. However, due to quality defects, the bridge was only completed in 2012, so the bridge could finally be opened on March 24, 2012. Currently around 6,000 people use the bridge every day.
The well-known Spanish architect and designer Santiago Calatrava designed the Peace Bridge. Calatrava is more known for his asymmetrical architecture. Although this time the bridge is very symmetrical, Calatrava has remained true to his love of organic shapes. He deliberately used the colors white and red, which can be found in both the Canadian flag and the flag of Calgary.
The bridge is covered and is illuminated at night. This means it shines beautifully against the Calgary skyline.
The bridge is based on a foundation on each bank, which blends wonderfully into the natural river landscape thanks to the stone filling. This natural river landscape and the modern, mathematical architecture of the bridge form a great and interesting contrast.
The entire length of the bridge is approximately 130 meters. The scale of the model is about 1:166. It took me about 2 weeks to recreate the bridge. The model consists of approximately 2,618 bricks, although 1,120 bricks are just Slopes 30 1x1x2/3 that were used to model the stones. The dimensions of the entire model are width/length/height = 23.6cm/97.6cm/15.8cm.
I'm a civil engineer and I particularly like bridges. I love the slim and graceful nature of bridges. I always admire how people can create such structures.
Nowadays in real life, huge buildings often run out of time and out of costs because of a big (too big) complexity and so many different conflicting interests. This makes it all the more satisfying to be owner, builder, planner and construction company in one person if your building project is made of Lego. And voilá – it works.
With the Tower Bridge, Lego has already released a great bridge model. But there are so many other great bridges with impressive architecture that are worth publishing as a Lego model. Apart from that, engineering art can be recognized particularly well in bridges: in the perfect interplay of compressive and tensile forces.
Two good reasons for a new Lego model.
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Che_Pepe
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