Engineering a link across the Thames
The millennium bridge
A spectacular bridge which embarrassed the architects and engineers when it was first opened.
This is the first new footbridge over the Thames for over a hundred years. It links St Paul's Cathedral to the north with Tate Modern on the south bank.
The bridge which wobbled
Arup, the engineering company which designed and built the bridge have set up a web site to describe with the help of a gallery of pictures:
- how the bridge came to designed,
- the men and women who worked on the bridge,
- what went wrong when it started to wobble and how they have set about solving the problem.
At the south end of the bridge
Visit the Tate Modern web site to find out about something of the history of the Bankside end of the millennium bridge.
Submitted by: Andrew Hunt, 15 January 2007
