CREATIVE CONNECTIONS: BRIDGES AS ART

This article offers a critique of several new bridges in Japan including the Seto Great bridge of the Honshu-Shikoku Bridge project. The latter, it is noted, makes a delicate tracery through the wide reaches of the inland sea without impairing the splendor of the natural setting. It is pointed out there are 3 principles of good bridge design: efficiency, economy, and elegance. Some of the most impressive new Japanese bridges are those built to carry major highways over port facilities. Examples of such bridges are described: the Hokko bridge, a single-cable, self-anchored suspension bridge that carries a 4-lane city highway; the Ajigawa bridge, of the same scale and proportions as the former; and the Kuma River Bridge in the central mountains of Kyushu. Several suggestions are made regarding the improvement of bridge design in Japan.

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• Authors:
  • Billington, D P
• Publication Date: 1990-3

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 50-53
• Serial:
  • Civil Engineering
  • Volume: 60
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0885-7024
  • Serial URL: http://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/newce/html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aesthetics; Bridge design; Bridges; Mountains; Ports; Structural design; Suspension bridges
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Design; Highways; I24: Design of Bridges and Retaining Walls;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00493900
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 30 1990 12:00AM