25 Times Engineers Impressed Us With Their Ability To Blend Design With Scenery
Structures like the Great Pyramids and the Colosseum still impress us with the foresight and skill displayed by the engineers. These days, however, constructing buildings has become a much easier task considering all the assistance technology provides. This is why the challenge for engineers has turned from just erecting something to ensuring that it’s a sustainable endeavour.
If a structure adds beauty to the landscape or enhances it in some way, while being eco-friendly then our admiration is certainly due to the creative genius behind the feat. Today we explore a Reddit thread that celebrates such out-of-the-box thinkers and we’ve shared some of their most awe-inspiring examples in the gallery below.
#1 Thought You Would Be Interested In This Skew Bridge In Scotland
#2 Devil’s Bridge – Bulgaria
#3 Wildlife Crossing In Banff National Park, Canada
#4 Kapellbrucke Chapel Bridge – Lucerne, Switzerland
#5 Banff Wildlife Crossing Project, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Combined With Fencing To Keep The Animals Off The Road, The Structures Have Reduced Animal-Vehicle Collisions In The Area By More Than 80%
#6 Heatherwick Rolling Bridge – Paddington Basin, London, England, UK
#7 Čechův Most, Prague
#8 Elevated Metro Line Integrated Into Park It Passes Over In Kolkata, India
#9 Bastei Walking Bridge – Germany – 1851
#10 A Novel High Voltage Electricity Pylon Called ‘Bog Fox’, In Estonia By Part Architects
#11 Millau Viaduct
#12 Magdeburg Water Bridge – Magdeburg, Germany
#13 The Falkirk Wheel, A Rotating Boat Lift In Scotland. It Replaces The Original 11 Locks On The Forth And Clyde Canal Junction With The Union Canal
#14 Dedicated Bus Lanes In The Middle Of The A40 Autobahn In Essen, Germany
#15 Storseisundet Bridge – Norway
#16 A Cycle Path That Goes Through A Lake In Bokrijk, Belgium
#17 A Wall In Ancient Ostia Where The Bricks Were Laid According To The Scheme Called Opus Reticulatum, With Bricks Arranged Diagonally. The Ancient Romans Knew Earthquake Tremors Were Transmitted Diagonally And This Could Cope Better Than A Horizontal Pattern
#18 Utrecht, The Netherlands: 50 Years Ago, This Canal Was Filled And Converted Into A Highway. Now It Has Finally Been Transformed Back, With Space For Cyclists And Nature As Well
#19 The Ancient Roman Aqueduct In Segovia, Spain – Standing Since The 1st Century
#20 Royal Gorge Bridge – Fremont County, Colorado
#21 High Trestle Trail Bridge – Boone County, Iowa
#22 The Bridge Over The Mountain Spring Lake In Romania [oc][1772×1181]
#23 Someone Recommended That I Post This Denver Lightrail Station Entrance On Here
#24 The Mozes Bridge (Loopgraafbrug) – Fort De Roovere, Halsteren, Netherlands
#25 Road Cut Through Taroko Gorge, Taiwan [oc]
Shanilou Perera
Shanilou has always loved reading and learning about the world we live in. While she enjoys fictional books and stories just as much, since childhood she was especially fascinated by encyclopaedias and strangely enough, self-help books. As a kid, she spent most of her time consuming as much knowledge as she could get her hands on and could always be found at the library. Now, she still enjoys finding out about all the amazing things that surround us in our day-to-day lives and is blessed to be able to write about them to share with the whole world as a profession.
