Thursday, January 6, 2011

98 Ski Doo Tundra Conversion

opening of the Shaikh Zayed Bridge

After nearly 8 years of construction, now with 4 years of the late Shaikh Zayed Bridge opened just before the end of the year. The two 4-lane roads are 16m above the water and a total of about 840m long. The bridge was designed by the renowned Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. The bridge is intended to represent here in a desert country occurring sand dunes. The highest "Dune" is 64m high. The building cost about CHF 300 million.

Abu Dhabi is now over 4 bridges from the mainland reached. The new bridge will, as was the Maqta and also on the Mussafahbrücke Maqtakanal. About the fourth bridge, Shaikh Khalifa, the bridge, you reach Abu Dhabi from the east via Saadiyat Iceland.
already beginning 2008, I published a small contribution here. But now a few pictures from the construction phase and the finished bridge.












images of finished bridge



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