Webb Bridge
Undulating steel footbridge shaped like a giant Indigenous eel trap, its laser-cut panels glowing over the river at night.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Webb Bridge in Melbourne follows a design competition from the year 2000, when architects Denton Corker Marshall and artist Robert Owen were handed a rusting stretch of the old Webb Dock railway bridge and chose to splice new steel onto it rather than tear it down. Owen wanted the addition to be a symbolic act of reconciliation, joining industrial Melbourne to a much older story of the land. Look up at the ribs curling overhead, laser-cut steel panels that filter daylight into shifting patterns underfoot.
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