This bridge is the world’s largest tensegrity bridge designed by the Queensland division of Australia’s Cox Rayner Architects with Arup. The budget of the bridge development is £35.5 million. This bridge is intended to accommodate pedestrian and cycle and the bridge connects Brisbane’s Central Business District with the city’s South Bank and its major cultural precinct. The Kurilpa Bridge has several viewing decks and a full length canopy in measuring 470 meters long and 6.5 meters wide. In the night, the bridge will be flooded with a sophisticated LED lighting scheme. People will see various different lighting effects.
This bridge has utilized Richard Buckminster Fuller’s principle of tensegrity producing a synergy between balanced tension and compression components to create a light structure that is incredibly strong. Richard Rayner explained: “The inherent strength in the tensegrity system meant that the deck could be very thin. As river navigation requirements entailed the bridge needed to be 11 meters above the bank on the South Bank side, the 900mm deck enabled us to minimize the ramp down which otherwise would have eaten into Kurilpa Park, a significant historic meeting place for Aboriginal people”.
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