Samuel Beckett BridgeSantiago Calatrava
Construction · Dublin, Ireland · 2009
Photo: William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland · Taken on 1 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 5616×3744
The Samuel Beckett Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge currently under construction in Dublin, Ireland, and is expected to join Macken Street on the south-side of the River Liffey, to Guild Street and North Wall Quay in the Docklands area. The architect is Santiago Calatrava, a designer of a number of innovative bridges and buildings. This will be the second bridge in the area designed by Calatrava, the first being the James Joyce Bridge, which is further upstream. Constructed by the "Graham Hollandia Joint Venture", the main span of the Samuel Beckett Bridge is supported by 31 cable stays from a