London – Blogvaria https://blog.evaria.com The personal pages Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:36:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 1077093 Incredible rolling bridge https://blog.evaria.com/2008/incredible-rolling-bridge/ Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:36:54 +0000 http://blog.evaria.com/?p=988 The Rolling Bridge, located on the Paddington Basin in London, was created by Thomas Heatherwick. It is twelve meters long and opens every Friday at noon.

Rather than a conventional opening bridge mechanism, consisting of a single rigid element that lifts to let boats pass, the Rolling Bridge gets out of the way by curling up until its two ends touch.

See it in action below:

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