| Author(s): |
Laurent Ney
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|---|---|
| Medium: | book |
| Language(s): | English |
| Publisher: | Vantilt Publishers |
| Published in: | Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| Page(s): | 200 |
| Year: | 2014 |
| ISBN-10: | 9460041744 |
| ISBN-13: | 9789460041747 |
| Cover: | soft-cover (paper binding) |
| Notes: |
Nijmegen: Designing the ‘City Bridge' is a personal account by Laurent Ney, the engineering half of the architectural duo Ney and Poulissen who designed Nijmegen's new City Bridge – a challenging assignment, for Nijmegen already had an iconic bridge, The Waal Bridge, whose imposing arch structure had led the Dutch government to declare it a historic monument. Laurent Ney provides glimpse inside his head, and his sketchesbook. We follow him through an exciting process in which his knowledge of construction – historical as well as cultural, and local as well as international – blended with a clear vision of landscape and urban design. Nijmegen's city council had called for a ‘city bridge', but what exactly this meant was to prove the key issue in the design process. Numerous decisions were made' and factors weighed up – but when it became clear that an all-steel bridge would be far too expensive, the architects had to go almost back to square one. The result is impressive: Europe's largest single-arch bridge. Using original documentation, such as the assignment description, design sketches, explorations of the surroundings, sources of inspiration, models and photographs, Laurent Ney presents a fascinating picture of a complex design process. |
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