Millennium Bridge (Dublin)
The Millennium Bridge (Irish: Droichead na Mílaoise) is a pedestrian bridge spanning the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland, joining Eustace Street in Temple Bar to the north quays.
River Liffey: Millennium Bridge in front & Grattan Bridge behind.
The bridge was installed in December 1999 to commemorate the approaching new millennium in 2000. It was prefabricated in Carlow, 80 km from Dublin, as a portal frame structure made up of a slender steel truss and resting on reinforced concrete haunches.
The bridge was designed by Howley Harrington Architects, with Price & Myers as consulting engineers. The concrete base and steel structure for the bridge were provided by two firms from Carlow: Formwork 2000+ and Thompson Engineering respectively.
The Millennium Bridge is a neighbour to the much older pedestrian Ha'penny Bridge to the east, and Grattan Bridge to the west. Bloom Lane is to the north.
References
- ^ Millennium Bridge at Structurae
- ^ "Droichead na Mílaoise / Millennium Bridge". Placenames Commission Database. Logainm.ie. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
- ^ Project history of Dublin's River Liffey bridges (PDF). Bridge Engineering 156 Issue BE4 (Report). Phillips & Hamilton. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2008.
- ^ "Making history with millennium bridge". The Carlow Nationalist. 28 August 1999. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011.
- ^ "Celebrating 10 years of Engineering - Bridges" (PDF). 10 years of engineering achievement (exhibition). Dublin City Council. 2011.
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