Puente Azud del Oro

This guide to the Puente Azud del Oro in Valencia follows Santiago Calatrava's crews as they raised a single leaning steel mast over the buried Turia riverbed starting in 2004, meant to hold a roadway aloft on twenty nine fanned cables. You'll hear what went wrong with the anchor cables in the summer of 2005, and how the half-finished mast stood idle over an empty riverbed for more than two years while the budget kept climbing past its original twenty three million euros. It follows the race to finish the deck in time for Valencia's 2008 European Grand Prix.