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Crazy Swiss Swingers Suspend Hot Tub from Bridge
This takes extreme hot-tubbing to new levels. A group in Switzerland suspended a makeshift Jacuzzi from the Gueuroz Bridge, 613 feet in the air. And they got in it! And hot-tubbed!
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How Does an Entire Bridge Go Missing?
Police in North Beaver Township, Pennsylvania are scratching their heads right now. Why? A 15-metre long, 6-metre wide steel bridge just disappeared. How? Apparently, some very bold criminals just up...
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50 Tonnes of Plastic Recycled Into Scottish Foot Bridge
The charming rural scene pictured above actually contains 50 tonnes or our discarded water bottles and sandwich containers, which were blended up and refashioned into this 90-foot-long plastic bridge.
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This Twisted Bridge Isn’t a Failure At All
At first glance it looks like this bridge in the Netherlands was an engineering failure, not unlike the infamous Tacoma Narrows that collapsed. But this is how the architects designed and built it to...
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10 Great and British Designs, Handpicked by Two Eagle-Eyed Design Critics
Tim Greenhalgh of FITCH writes… ”Design is everywhere, and there is almost nothing that you use or see everyday that has, in fact, not been designed in some way…but is it great? For me, great design...
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The Pitter Patter Of Rain Might Reveal a Bridge’s Structural Integrity
Closing down a busy bridge for safety inspections is difficult because it can lead to traffic nightmares on either side. But at the same time, the last thing engineers want is for it to collapse with...
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Your Monday Afternoon Explosion Fix: Watch This Bridge Blow Up in Glorious...
The US-281 Bridge in Marble Falls, Texas had to go. Fortunately for us, the best way to do that involved a whole bunch of explosives. The bridge was demolished yesterday morning with a series of...
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Watch China’s Longest-Ever Raised Motorway Demolition Fall Like Dominoes
Given the fevered pace of China’s infrastructure development, 16 years is ancient. That’s why the two-lane concrete Zhuan-yang viaduct running through the town of Wuhan, Hubei in central China had to...
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The Golden Gate Bridge Looked Even More Stunning Before It Had a Road
The Golden Gate Bridge is almost certainly America’s most iconic bridge, and one of the country’s most-photographed landmarks. But here, you see it in a state only a handful of people ever witness:...
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How One Man Is Turning the Eiffel Tower into a Song
If you want to make music, you’ve got a plenty of different instruments to choose from. But if you want to make really unique (or weird) music, you’ve got to find something off the beaten path. That’s...
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It Takes a Ludicrous Amount of Work to Build a Good Bridge
Building a road might be harder than you’d think, but we all know that building a bridge is one serious feat of engineering. Here’s some proof: 42,000 hours of work time lapsed down to a hypnotizing...
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Mystery Post Box Appears in Stone Bridge Above the Thames
Postmen in the small town of Sonning-on-Thames are currently bewildered by the appearance of a new post box, which has supposedly just blinked into existence in the middle of an old bridge over the...
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China’s Suspension Giant Is 3,500 Feet Longer Than the Brooklyn Bridge
The Yangtze River is the third longest in the world, and it’s served as a critical artery in the beating heart of China’s economic boom. It’s also incredibly wide at points—which has forced China to...
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Have You Heard the One About the Chilean Bridge and the Spanish Builders?
The project that would see the construction of Chile’s first drawbridge has fallen into shambles as it has become clear that the bridge’s builders have constructed one of the traffic decks upside down....
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