Weave Bridge – Cecil Balmond’s New Campus Crossing Opens Philadelphia

This bridge is a piece of trophy architecture with a definite twist in the University of Pennsylvania. The bridge design is composed of six steel strips woven around a square cross-section that flares from about ten feet wide at its midpoint to 16 feet wide at each end of the 165-foot span. This rope-like structure of bridge designed by structural engineer Cecil Balmond and his legendary Advanced Geometry Unit (AGU) research group at Arup.

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