Wabash Bridge
New Bridge on Existing Piers,
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Winter 2019
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Forge Prize Submission
THE CITY OF THE RENAISSANCE
Bridge #1: Ponte Santa Trinita: The most beautiful and elegant bridge in the city.
Bridge #3: Ponte Alle Grazie: The efficient bridge that moves many people from one side of the river to the other.
Bridge #2: Ponte Vecchio: The strange eclectic occupied bridge, a lively extension of urbanization over the river.
THE STEEL CITY
Bridge #1: Smithfield Street Bridge: The most beautiful and elegant bridge in the city.
Bridge #3: Fort Pitt Bridge: The efficient bridge that moves many people from one side of the river to the other.
Bridge #2: Where the Wabash Bridge used to be: Opportunity to build a strange eclectic occupied bridge, a lively extension of urbanization over the river.
Wabash Bridge II: Pittsburgh's Ponte Vecchio Nuovo™©®
The New Wabash Bridge, built over the piers of the old, is a structural steel framework for eclectic urbanization across the Monongahela River. It loses its bigness by having each 60' bay become a unique work of architecture. Where the spectacle of Downtown is the collection of buildings, likewise is the spectacle of this bridge.
