12 inhabited bridges
To mark the 800th anniversary of the famous London Bridge, the Royal Institute of British Architects has launched a competition for designs of an inhabited bridge.
The current London Bridge is not the Victorian Gothic Tower Bridge, as many people believe, but a rather bland stone one. Its predecessor was also uninteresting and was bought by mistake and put in the Arizona desert. But the original London Bridge was a cultural icon, a bridge covered in buildings.
Inspired by the competition we have put together a list of the most interesting inhabited bridges, from surreal single house bridge designs to Zaha Hadids sleek Zaragoza Expo bridge .
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The London bridge that became famous is this one, the two later ones were bland and the name is often used by tourists to refer to Tower Bridge. This view of the Old London Bridge is from a model in the London Museum.
Constant Nieuwenhuis has worked over twenty years on the development of his utopia New Babylon.
