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The architect/designer of Sydney Harbor Bridge? |
Travel Info The architect/designer of Sydney Harbor Bridge? Travel Tips The basic design announced in 1957 was the one submitted by J酶rn Utzon, a Danish architect. Others Dr. J.J.C. Bradfield architect, completed in 1932. There is some dispute who designed it.......... Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sydney_harb... The building of the current bridge can be said to have started in 1890, when a royal commission determined that there was a heavy level of ferry traffic in the Sydney Harbour area, best relieved with the construction of a bridge. Vehicular access to the north shore was undertaken with a series of smaller bridges located further westwards in the harbour, but this was insufficient for the traffic in the Sydney/North Sydney area. Designs and proposals were requested in 1900, but a formal proposal was not accepted until 1911. In 1912, John Bradfield was appointed chief engineer of the bridge project, which also had to include a railway. After travelling extensively to look at a number of Bridges worldwide, he based his idea upon New York's Hell Gate Bridge. He completed a formal design 鈥?the now familiar single arch shape 鈥?in 1916, but plans to implement the design were postponed until 1922, primarily because of World War I. In November 1922 the NSW parliament passed laws that allowed the bridge's construction. Construction tenders for the bridge were requested the same year, and the British firm Dorman Long and Co Ltd, Middlesbrough won. To offset concerns about a foreign firm participating in the project, assurances were given by Bradfield that the workforce building the bridge would all be Australians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sydney_harb... |
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