The Gateshead Millennium Bridge is the world’s first and only tilting bridge. It is used by both pedestrians and cyclists alike and enjoyed by people from all over the world.
The bridge crosses the River Tyne in North East England between and the Quayside of Newcastle upon Tyne on the north bank. The bridge was designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects and engineered by Gifford.
Confederation Bridge - Canada
The Confederation Bridge crosses the Abegweit Passage of Northumberland Strait and joins the eastern Canadian provinces of Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick, Canada.
Before it received its official naming, Prince Edward Islanders used to refer to the bridge as the “Fixed Link”. The curved, 12.9 kilometer bridge is the longest in the world crossing ice-covered water, and is one of Canada’s top engineering achievements of the 20th century.
Tsing Ma Bridge - Hong Kong
Tsing Ma Bridge is a bridge in Hong Kong and the world’s 11th-longest span suspension bridge, at 2.16 km.
Tsing Ma Bridge opened to traffic in 1997 and has become a major infrastructure both serving the new airport on Lantau Island and as a tourist attraction. The bridge was named for the two islands it connects, namely Tsing Yi and Ma Wan.
Duge Bridge - China
The Duge Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge located near Liupanshui in China. As of 2016, the bridge tops all previous records for height with the road deck sitting over 565 metres above the Beipan River. This also makes it the highest cable-stayed bridge.
The bridge crosses the river on the border between Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. No other region on earth has as many high bridges as China’s remote Western Province of Guizhou.
Oresund Bridge - Sweden
The Oresund Bridge provides railway and motorway access across the Øresund strait between Sweden and Denmark.
The bridge spans nearly 8 kilometres from the Swedish coast to the artificial island Peberholm in the middle of the strait.