{"id":364626,"date":"2025-08-22T12:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364626\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:28:14","slug":"ney-and-partners-curves-footbridge-between-arches-of-french-viaduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364626\/","title":{"rendered":"Ney and Partners curves footbridge between arches of French viaduct"},"content":{"rendered":"

Belgian engineering studio Ney and Partners has created a sinuous footbridge<\/a>\u00a0in Albi, France<\/a>, which cantilevers from a 19th-century viaduct over the River Tarn.<\/p>\n

Made from steel<\/a>, the pedestrian and bicycle bridge<\/a> is straight along one side, while the other side meanders in a waving pattern between the 4.7 metre-wide arches of the brick railway viaduct.<\/p>\n

\"AlbiNey and Partners has built a sinuous footbridge in Albi<\/p>\n

Curving to 7.5 metres at the widest points, Ney and Partners<\/a> added seating to the bridge to create balcony-like spaces with views across the river.<\/p>\n

Influenced by the geometry of the viaduct and its seven arches, the studio wanted to translate the brick structure’s curved forms in elevation into curved shapes in plan.<\/p>\n

\"PedestrianThe footbridge curves between the arches of a railway viaduct<\/p>\n

“The footbridge geometry is closely related to that of the railway viaduct,” Ney and Partners partner Matthieu Malli\u00e9 told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“A waving pattern has been introduced to the walking line of the footbridge, matching the rhythm of the viaduct’s arches,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“The bridge deck unfolds upstream to form balconies above the Tarn, each equipped with a bench located exactly at the mid-span of each arch of the railway viaduct, which provides shade and protection to the passers-by.”<\/p>\n

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Tintagel Castle Bridge in Cornwall has a gap where it meets in the middle\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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The bridge aims to provide a link between Albi town centre and the neighbourhoods across the River Tarn, with spaces that offer moments to pause and observe the surroundings.<\/p>\n

Built in 1865, the masonry viaduct serves a railway that is still in operation. The footbridge is fixed to the viaduct with bi-articulated steel brackets, which allow for movement caused by thermal expansion.<\/p>\n

\"AlbiBenches provide space to sit and look across the River Tarn<\/p>\n

“This dual articulation allows the footbridge to expand freely under thermal loads, while ensuring the transmission of forces originating from the footbridge, such as self-weight and pedestrian loads,” said Malli\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Other footbridges that have been featured on Dezeen include a minimalist concrete bridge in Prague designed to resemble marble<\/a> and a footbridge in the Czech Republic with a cantilevered viewpoint<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"BridgeThe Albi footbridge was cantilevered from the viaduct by articulated steel brackets<\/p>\n

Ney and Partners was founded in 1996 in Brussels by civil engineer and architect Laurent Ney.<\/p>\n

The studio previously built the Tintagel Castle Bridge in Cornwall<\/a>, constructed from two 30-metre cantilevered spans that don’t quite meet in the middle, which won the inaugural Beauty Building Awards<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Vincent Boutin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgian engineering studio Ney and Partners has created a sinuous footbridge\u00a0in Albi, France, which cantilevers from a 19th-century…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,17777,4022,77,127786,36,126129,126130,1218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-364626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-bridges","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-footbridges","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-sectionall","16":"tag-sectionarchitecture","17":"tag-steel","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115072422103353734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}