With the continuous acceleration of urbanization, the construction and development of bridges, as an important transportation facility connecting the two sides of the city, has attracted more and more attention. In addition to satisfying the basic traffic functions, bridge lighting design has gradually become an important means to enhance the urban image and beautify the urban landscape. This article will share with you the top ten bridge lighting design cases, let us feel the artistic beauty of these bridges under the illumination, and experience the poetry and romance in the city night.
Night view design of Anyuan Bridge on Suzhou Creek
Lighting Design: RDI International Lighting Design
The project is located at the intersection of Anyuan Road and West Suzhou Road in the Jing'an section of Suzhou Creek, in the heart of the world-class waterfront business district, connecting the west side of Suzhou Creek, Jing'an International Center and the Sleepless City business district, and is an important node of nighttime vitality and the city's pedestrian network.
As an important project of Shanghai's "One River and One River", Anyuan Bridge floats over Suzhou Creek with its unique U-shaped structure, and realizes a one-span river crossing with a three-span steel truss continuous beam structure and auxiliary twin tower cables, making it unique on the banks of Suzhou Creek. Through this lighting upgrade, Anyuan Bridge has become the city's "Fun Bridge", like a necklace of flowing light and charm embellished in the city night, showing the elegant quality of Jing'an Suzhou Creek.
Rice chaff bridge night lighting design project
Design unit: Wenzhou Design Group Co., Ltd
Longfang Bridge, also known as the chaff bridge, is located in Nantang Fengfeng Street and Wenruitang River along the river landscape belt, which is an important project integrating traffic and expressing the culture of Tanghe River. Wenzhou Design Group Co., Ltd., as the designer of the bridge, conducted relevant research on the surrounding bridge types before compiling the lighting design plan of Longfang Bridge, including Liaodong Bridge on Wenzhou Avenue, Sanban Bridge on Feixia South Road, Qingfeng Bridge on Nanpu Road, Nantang Bridge on Zhualongqiao Road, and Wuqiao Bridge on Wuqiao Road, so as to better grasp the bridge style and the continuity of bridge construction in the entire Nantang area.
Longfang Bridge starts from Longfang Road in the west and reaches the planned branch road in the east, with a total length of 387.08 meters, which is composed of the main bridge and the east and west approach bridges. The width of the main bridge deck is 31.5 meters, and the width of the approach bridge deck is 21.0 meters. The main body of the bridge adopts Chinese red as the main color, which has the landscape effect of the red bridge lying wave, and will become another beautiful scenery line of Nantang Pedestrian Street.
Lighting design of Guipanhai Bridge of Shunde Huanhu Road Project in Foshan
Lighting Design: DREAN DESIGN
Shunde District is one of the five administrative districts of Foshan City. Located in the southern part of Guangdong Province, in the middle of the Pearl River Delta Plain, the estuarine delta plain formed by the alluvial rivers of the river. The southwest border of Guangzhou-Foshan and the southern part of the Guangzhou-Foshan-Zhaozhou Economic Circle are one of the important core areas connecting Foshan and Guangzhou. Shunde's strong economy and rich culture will inevitably affect the architecture. There are classical and fresh garden buildings, Lingnan buildings with unique styles, and antique buildings with strong financial resources. Shunde has prospered since ancient times, has a profound cultural heritage, has a traditional water town culture, and has a dragon boat race, gong and drum cabinets, martial arts culture, Cantonese opera and other folk customs and characteristic culture. The picturesque "Guipan Sea Bridge" is located here.
A bridge connects the two pieces of land and separates the rushing water. The bridge is not a cold building without life, it is watered by human beings with wisdom, giving people convenience and beauty. One bridge and one poetry, people can't help but praise it with the most beautiful poems: the river city is like a picture, the mountain looks at the clear sky at night, the two rivers are sandwiched by the mirror, and the double bridge falls into the rainbow.
Guangzhou Liede Bridge
Lighting Design Team:
Beijing Qingkong Habitat Optoelectronics Research Institute Co., Ltd
Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd
Liede Bridge is close to the Canton Tower, the core area of the Pearl River night tour, is an important window to show Guangzhou to the world, the construction time is long, the lighting effect and lamps are seriously aging, and the bridge zipper screen is a temporary facility with poor stability.
The design requires to improve the overall effect of the bridge, improve the expression of the lights within the zipper, and become a landscape bridge and landscape core linking the Pearl River Night Tour Pearl River New Town to the West District of Pazhou.
Taiwan Huwei
Lighting Design: Qinxian International Design Co., Ltd
The century-old Huwei Iron Bridge is a designated monument in Yunlin County and was once a railroad track dedicated to the sugar industry. Yunlin Huwei was an important sugar town in the heyday of Taiwan's sugar industry in the 50s and 60s, and built bridges for the "five-point narrow-gauge train" during the Japanese occupation to transport a large amount of sugarcane into the factory. After several reconstructions, the scene of the small train crossing the iron bridge has long since disappeared. Today, visitors can wander around the tracks or roam freely, and the Tiger Tail Iron Bridge has now become an iconic local tourist attraction.
The Huwei Iron Bridge spans the mighty Huwei River, with 21 piers and a total length of 437 meters. The steel bridge consists of four composite parts. Above one end of the bridge is an elevated steel structure with a total length of about 200 meters, while at the other end there is only a train track and a horizontal bridge structure arranged according to the topographical span of the river. In this way, the entire bridge forms an asymmetrical terraced structure.
11-hole bridge in Shanghai World Expo Cultural Park
Lighting design unit: Huajian Group Architectural Decoration Environment Design and Research Institute
Located on the core riverside bank of the Huangpu River and close to the west side of the Lupu Bridge, the Shanghai World Expo Cultural Park is an important part of the Huangpu River Ecological Corridor and the largest riverside park planned in the core area of Shanghai. The 11-hole bridge is located in the central area of the central lake of the park, connecting the quiet forest in the east and the Shanghai greenhouse in the west, connecting the two sides of the landscape lake, echoing with the ups and downs of the peaks of the Twin Mountains, and is the focus of the landscape of the garden on the bridge and the bridge in the park.
The 11-hole bridge is 75m long and 6.2~8.6m wide, and is composed of 7 holes with symmetrical center and gradual size and 4 holes of equal size. The 11-hole bridge is based on the traditional Chinese garden stone arch bridge, and the bridge architectural design takes "Oriental style + contemporary spirit" as the design concept, and adopts contemporary advanced technology to respond to "Oriental culture".
Shenzhen Baoan Binhai Covered Bridge
Lighting Design: Lucent Lighting Design
Shenzhen Bao'an Binhai Covered Bridge is located in the core area of Bao'an Central District, Shenzhen, and is an important livelihood project for the Bao'an District Party Committee and District Government to improve the slow traffic system and stitch the urban space. The project is 2 kilometers long, starting from Bao'an Stadium in the north, Bao'an Library in the east, Binhai Cultural Park in the south, and looking at Qianhai Bay in the distance. The bridge crosses 14 green belts in the core business district and municipal cultural facilities in the central area of Bao'an, spans 9 plots and 6 main roads in the air, connects with Metro Lines 11 and 28, and is adjacent to Metro Line 5 and Planning Line 9.
As the country's first "trinity" of air, ground and underground composite urban green corridor and the first slow traffic system connecting the city to the sea in the Qianhai Bay area, the Binhai Corridor Bridge extends the vitality of the coastal area to the green axis of the city by building a three-dimensional continuous, ecologically diverse, open and shared urban park, realizing the connection between the sea and the city in the central area of Bao'an, and once again refreshing the urban recognition and reputation of Bao'an, becoming a new landmark in the city where citizens are vying to check in and walk.
Fenghua Fengxin Lake Bridge in Ningbo
Flood design unit: Shanghai Enjin Lighting Design Co., Ltd
Fengxin Lake Bridge is a landscape bridge of the Science Popularization Center of the Future City in Fenghua District, which is a downward supporting steel structure arch bridge. The span of the bridge is 78 meters, the total width of the bridge deck is 37.5 meters, and the overall weight of the steel structure project is nearly 2,000 tons. The bridge is the main access bridge connecting Shunpu Road and Jiapu Road, spanning Fengxin Lake, and is known as the Rainbow Bridge.
Fangxin Road, where the project is located, is the north-south trunk road of the future city, the main road through the core business district, and is positioned as an important landscape display road. Fangxin Road Bridge across Fengxin Lake is located in the core area of the business district, which is intended to create a landscape bridge with characteristics and become a highlight of the landscape of the central lake.
Grand Avenue Park Bridge
照明概念设计:Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design
The Grand Avenue Park Bridge is located on the Everett waterfront in Pennsylvania, USA. The bridge connects the park to the waterfront development area, and the design of the bridge is based on the principle of economic use. The simple and functional structural system of the truss responds directly to its planning needs and recalls the style and characteristics of traditional railway trusses in the Pacific Northwest.
The custom perforated design on the guardrail is inspired by the surrounding natural environment. Perforated designs of different densities are designed to increase the reflectivity of artificial lighting and improve the performance of integrated linear lights at the top of the track while minimizing glare and light pollution. Each aluminium panel is unique and responds to the diverse needs of the bridge's geometry and guardrails. Large-scale trusses and small-scale perforated panels create a dynamic landscape and light experience through linear lighting.
Tana Bridge
照明设计：Zenisk, Norway
The symbol of the Arctic town is the Tana Bridge, a 200-metre-long structure that connects the regional transport arteries between Norway, Finland and Russia.
The lighting design concept of the project was to convey nature and culture in the lighting. Nature – Showcasing architecture through the dynamic Northern Lights. Culture – by presenting architecture in a narrative way on National Sámi Day, such as projecting the colours of the Sámi flag.
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