Engineering

NOTES: The Gateshead Millennium Bridge, designed by Wilkinson Eyre, opened in 2001 and the Baltic Centre housed in converted flour mills was designed by Ellis Williams Architects and opened in 2002.

NOTES: The High Level Bridge was designed by Robert Stephenson and built in 1845-1849 for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway. This is the first major example of a wrought iron tied arch or bow string girder bridge. It links Newcastle-upon-Tyne with Gateshead on the south bank of the River Tyne. Built to facilitate the passage of ships along the Tyne, the swing bridge replaced an earlier Georgian stone one and opened in 1876. It was designed by the engineer John Francis Ure while the ironwork and machinery was supplied by G. Armstrong and Co. of Elswick. The Tyne Bridge is a compression arch suspended-deck bridge that links Newcastle-upon-Tyne with Gateshead on the south bank of the River Tyne. Completed in 1928, it was designed by the engineers Mott Hay & Anderson while Robert Burns Dick was responsible for the design of the piers. The Queen Elizabeth II bridge was developed as part of the Tyne and Wear Metro system, designed by W. A. Fairhurst & Partners, it opened in 1981.

NOTES: The High Level Bridge was designed by Robert Stephenson and built in 1845-1849 for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway. This is the first major example of a wrought iron tied arch or bow string girder bridge. It links Newcastle-upon-Tyne with Gateshead on the south bank of the River Tyne. Built to facilitate the passage of ships along the Tyne, the swing bridge replaced an earlier Georgian stone one and opened in 1876. It was designed by the engineer John Francis Ure while the ironwork and machinery was supplied by G. Armstrong and Co. of Elswick

NOTES: This fortress on the banks of the Adige was built by the Scaligers in 1354-1355 and the main tower was completed in 1375. The interior was converted into the Civico Museo d'Arte in 1964 by Carlo Scarpa.

NOTES: See RIBA116588 for a colour version of this image.

NOTES: See RIBA116587 for a black and white version of this image.

NOTES: This is a lifting bridge of the Scherzer rolling-bascule type, built in the 1930s by the Port of London Authority and restored as a fixed bridge in the 1980s by the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC). See RIBA116618 for a colour version of this image.

NOTES: This is a lifting bridge of the Scherzer rolling-bascule type, built in the 1930s by the Port of London Authority and restored as a fixed bridge in the 1980s by the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC). See RIBA116611 for a black and white version of this image.