{"id":539956,"date":"2025-10-31T14:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/539956\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:02:21","slug":"grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/539956\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Canal Gateway Bridge &#8211; Hangzhou \/ Zaha Hadid Architects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"js-image-size__link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1035525\/grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects\/69025046a46bf9018a0fa91b-grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects-photo\" rel=\"attachment noopener\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grand Canal Gateway Bridge - Hangzhou \/ Zaha Hadid Architects - Image 1 of 22\" data-nr-picture-id=\"69025046a46bf9018a0fa91b\" fetchpriority=\"high\" height=\"426\" itemprop=\"image\" loading=\"eager\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1035525\/grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects\/69025046a46bf9018a0fa91b-grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects-photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects_4.jpg\" style=\"min-height: var(--featured-height, auto); aspect-ratio: auto 640 \/ 426\" width=\"640\"\/><\/a>\u00a9 Xue Liang<\/p>\n<p class=\"thumbs afd-desktop-e clearfix\"><a class=\"thumbs__link\" data-nr-picture-id=\"69025047a46bf9018a0fa91d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1035525\/grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects\/69025047a46bf9018a0fa91d-grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects-photo\" rel=\"attachment noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grand Canal Gateway Bridge - 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Hangzhou \/ Zaha Hadid Architects - Interior Photography\" class=\"thumbs__img b-lazy\" data-nr-picture-id=\"69025047f582e2018911c0d4\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects_13.jpg\" height=\"125\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1035525\/grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects\/69025047f582e2018911c0d4-grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects-photo\" title=\"\u00a9 Xue Liang\" width=\"125\"\/><\/a><a class=\"thumbs__link\" data-nr-picture-id=\"69025047f582e2018911c0d6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1035525\/grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects\/69025047f582e2018911c0d6-grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects-photo\" rel=\"attachment noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grand Canal Gateway Bridge - Hangzhou \/ Zaha Hadid Architects - Exterior Photography, Beam\" class=\"thumbs__img b-lazy\" data-nr-picture-id=\"69025047f582e2018911c0d6\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects_5.jpg\" height=\"125\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1035525\/grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects\/69025047f582e2018911c0d6-grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects-photo\" title=\"\u00a9 Xue Liang\" width=\"125\"\/><\/a><a class=\"gallery-link afd-desktop-e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1035525\/grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects\/69025046a46bf9018a0fa91b-grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects-photo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grand Canal Gateway Bridge - 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Construction of the Grand Canal Gateway Bridge in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/hangzhou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hangzhou<\/a> is now complete. When opened for public use later this year, <strong>the footbridge will unite the 800,000 square metre Seamless City masterplan under construction on the east and west banks of the Grand Canal.<\/strong> The centre piece of the city&#8217;s new 14.7-hectare River Middle public park and river promenade, the bridge and surrounding master plan by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) reconnects the city with its historic Grand Canal and Qiantang River by integrating homes, workplaces and amenities for its community with vital civic spaces for recreation, leisure and tourism.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/loader-blue.gif\" alt=\"Content Loader\" style=\"width: 40px; margin: 24px;\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Xue Liang + 17 Share Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1035525\/grand-canal-gateway-bridge-hangzhou-zaha-hadid-architects \u00a9 Xue Liang Text&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4023,4021,4020,17777,4022,77,50506,6084,174071,3695,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-539956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architecture","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-bridges","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-hangzhou","15":"tag-infrastructure","16":"tag-pedestrian-bridge","17":"tag-sustainability","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115469154029041925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539956","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=539956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}