Cầu Cửa Đại
Cable-stayed river crossing with Vietnam's longest cantilever span, built over six years against a shifting current.
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This guide to Cầu Cửa Đại in Hoi An starts on the Thu Bon estuary, where a tourist town on one bank and a fishing district on the other were kept apart by a river that shrank in the dry season. You'll hear about the groundbreaking in August 2009, a schedule that slipped, and the balanced-cantilever method used to reach out from each pier over open water. Best heard standing on the deck, looking down at the river.
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