The Rolling Bridge is perhaps one of the most innovative movable bridges ever conceived. It’s much more than the usual linear ...
Soaring across the scenic landscape, it’s indisputably one of the most beautiful bridges in the world. Often swathed by mist, so that it feels like crossing through clouds, it is so famous that it has ...
MILLAU, France--You first see it from miles away. And after an afternoon spent driving toward it and weeks of planning a visit here, it's fair to wonder if it will live up to expectations. And there ...
The Millau Viaduct in southern France remains one of the most famous tall bridges in the world. Completed in 2004, it set a benchmark for modern bridge engineering, with its highest pylon rising 343 ...
Great bridges are the truest form of public art, icons of functional elegance meant to be used as well as admired. Few contemporary structures fulfill this dual mandate as well as the Millau Viaduct, ...
Too often, man-made structures mar the landscape around them. A factory cuts a harsh silhouette against a once-picturesque riverbank; a gaudy hotel sprawls onto an otherwise pristine beach. But ...
MILLAU -- The Larzac, a limestone plateau that divides the western French Mediterranean coastal plain from the mountains to the north, has been a haven for hippies and eccentrics since the 1960s. This ...