Rolling Bridge

ROLLING BRIDGE by Thomas Heatherwick

At the moment we are working on a site in Paddington Basin in front of the Marks and Spencer building. It is a challenging and interesting site. The landscape and the rolling bridge design was carried out in 2005.

The Bridge is very cool. It is a beautiful, steel and timber structure, who in its normal conventional condition still is just a bridge, but a very nice one. When you see it being rolled up it becomes more. It is a kind of organic structure and the finished oxtagon fits perfectecly on site. As it curls up the hydraulics rams makes the process very quite and smooth and actually very fast.

If anyone wants to go see it curl up, this happens every Friday at noon (unless it is too windy). I can recommend it! If not just to get some cool photos and I think it helps you take your design concept a bit further.