The newly opened “Scissorhands Bridge” in London is a beautiful solution to a bureaucratic requirement for boats that don’t ever need to use the river beneath it. Most of the time, the new Merchant ...
A footbridge over a canal is not usually something that would attract attention for being an architectural spectacle. The recently-opened Merchant Square Footbridge, however, has five "fingers" that ...
The architects envisioned a moving structure made of five beams that creates a fan-like effect: the first finger can rise up to 70 degrees, while the last beam lifts high enough to create a free space ...
The UK-based firm Knight Architects has created a pedestrian bridge in London that opens and closes like a Japanese folding fan. The Merchant Square Footbridge is comprised of five steel beams that ...
The planning and construction of the Merchant Square footbridge in London’s Paddington will take from 2012 to 2014. The pedestrian bridge, designed in collaboration with AKT II Consulting Structural ...