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General Information

Name in local language: Pabellón Puente
Beginning of works: 2007
Completion: 14 June 2008
Status: in use

Project Type

Location

Location: , , ,
Crosses:
  • Ebro River
Part of:
Coordinates: 41° 39' 59" N    0° 54' 18" W
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Technical Information

Dimensions

width 8 - 30 m
height 15 - 30 m
total length 280 m
span lengths 125 m - 150 m
number of spans 2

Quantities

structural steel 5 600 t

Cost

cost of construction Euro 43 000 000

Materials

girder steel

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Bridge Pavilion (Spanish: Pabellón Puente) is a building designed by British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid that was constructed for the Expo 2008 in Zaragoza (Spain) as one of its main landmarks. It is an innovative 280-metre-long (919 ft) covered bridge that imitates a gladiola over the river Ebro, connecting the neighbourhood of La Almozara [es] with the exposition site, and thus becoming its main entrance. The new bridge is, at the same time, a multi-level exhibition area; 10,000 visitors per hour were expected to frequent the Pavilion during world exhibition.

Hadid chose fibre glass reinforced concrete from Austrian company Rieder to envelope the bridge: she covered the outer skin of the building with 29,000 triangles of fibreC in different shades of grey.

During the Expo 2008, the Bridge Pavilion hosted an exposition called Water – a unique resource, designed by Ralph Appelbaum Associates. When the Expo was over, the building was purchased by the local savings bank Ibercaja to use it as a site for expositions.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Bridge Pavilion" and modified on 12 June 2023 according to the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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  • About this
    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    20029591
  • Published on:
    31/07/2007
  • Last updated on:
    18/09/2023
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