Puente del Alamillo
Leaning single-pylon cable-stayed bridge that counterbalances its own deck with no back stays.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Puente del Alamillo in Seville opens with an engineering puzzle: thirteen cables and one leaning tower hold up two hundred meters of steel, with no cables and no support on the far side. It traces Santiago Calatrava's original 1987 plan for two mirrored bridges framing the 1992 World Expo, and the 1989 budget decision that left him with only half his design. That same tilted-tower idea had appeared a few years earlier in one of his own sculptures, a stack of tilted marble blocks held up by a single tensioned wire.
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