Dubai is not only leading in the world’s skyscraper race, but will also now lead in Superbridge engineering. New York’s Fxfowle architects have got their designs approved for Dubai’s Superbridge. Due for construction in March 2008, 2000 cars will swift past each other in one hour on its 12 lanes once completed in 2012.
At 670 ft. tall, Dubai’s next super structure will stand higher than the George Washington Bridge (604 ft.) but fall short of San Francisco’s existing Golden Gate Bridge (746 ft.).
Read on: Dubai’s Mile-Long Super Arch Bridge
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Awesome. but looks are like traditional ones.
amazing! is this necessary though? I mean is this bridge necessary in terms of transportation needs, or it’s just there for showing off
This is really GREAT!!!
thats trully brilliant, but isnt dubia in like the desert?
like, why build a big bridge, a snow ski resort, and the tallest tower, IN the desert…but you know i got to admit its crazy cool.
Absolutely insane. Dubai is like some SimCity player going nuts in the real-world.
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WOW! Impressive indeed. Whenever I think of construction in Dubai, I think of laborers that come from far away falling off of sky high construction sites to their deaths, and no one knowing back home what ever happened. Now in my imagination, they’ll fall into the water off of this bridge, so maybe they’ll have a better chance of surviving.
Just remember when you gas up your gas-guzzling SUV next time that this is the type of asinine waste your money is going for.
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Exactly Mike O. This would appear to be a GREAT “TARGET” once the government and/or people of Dubai sufficiently piss-off some radical extremist group. Best of “luck”!
wow, thats amazing. one of our first postings on fatawesome was about new projects in Dubai. We post parody news articles, check it out. THANKS!
Its amazing ,but when there is money you can do any thing like they have a hotel in sea ,Definitely it will cost huge as we can see fro architecture…. india we can build 10 normal bridge ..with that cost
hariprasade, don’t even get me started on what I could do in Africa with the money that will be spent on just painting that bridge.
[...] disdain for Dubai’s nouveau riche gaudiness — it would be a fun to work on one of these super-bridges. Long-span structures make it economical to use curvilinear members, which are a nice challenge [...]
very nice