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"Good design, good architecture and good engineering should always attempt to reach for the next step which is ART. For commissions in public spaces this is an imperative. It is the peoples right to have the best in function, design, and beauty"

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Nowadays there seems to be few new ways to span a river. Contemporary bridges in European cities are all, it seems permutations of the same principle, just decorated differently to fool the eye: for there's nothing new in bridge design, the engineers will tell you.

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Our design though, takes as it's starting point the very narrowness of the Clyde at the city centre. We propose to bridge the river with a structure so slender and elegant that at it's centre it looks impossibly thin and without visible means of support. Our bridge is free from the imagery of cable and arch which characterise new bridges from Bilbao to Dublin to Manchester and we have created a new structure which will be unique to Glasgow. This bridge will take you across the river, of course but will also connect you to the points on the rivers edge that were previously unreachable; to new jetties and beautifully landscaped gardens which link back seamlessly to the new structure and across the river. Creating special places on the north and south of the Clyde where you can enjoy the beauty of the river in a new setting.

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Once on, the bridge is designed to maximise views in both directions as you cross from Glasgow's Wall Street to the new activity and new residences on the south bank; connecting both sides of the city tangibly and for the first time. We have used water in various ways as a motivational theme to create a living bridge. A special place where Glaswegians and visitors will want to gather.............. and pause. From where they can take bateaux mouche down river to see the new sites of Glasgow Harbour and the Science Center and Transport Museum and maybe even to the west coast of Scotland A physical transportation connection to the heart of the city on water, never achieved before.