2024-05-07T17:23:20-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/145117570/rejected-leonardo-da-vinci-design-will-finally-come-to-life-as-world-s-longest-ice-bridge Alexander Walter 2016-01-06T13:32:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/fh/fh9db9y95flhaqo1.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>In 1502, at the request of the Turkish sultan, Leonardo da Vinci came up with the design for a stone bridge that would cross the Golden Horn [...]. With a span of some 240 meters, it would have been the longest bridge in the world&mdash;if it had been built. Now, more than 500 years after the sultan rejected da Vinci&rsquo;s design, a team of students and volunteers in the Finnish town of Juuka are in the process of constructing a scale model of the original drawing&mdash;out of ice.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Related stories in the Archinect news:</p><ul><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/103093761/gaud-s-uncompleted-masterpiece-will-finally-be-finished-in-ice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gaud&iacute;&rsquo;s uncompleted masterpiece will finally be finished&mdash;in ice</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/117657126/icecave-iceland-is-a-city-in-the-glacier" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IceCave Iceland is a city in the glacier</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/78309477/frank-gehry-designs-icehenge-desk-for-inland-steel-in-chicago" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Frank Gehry designs "Icehenge" desk for Inland Steel in Chicago</a></li></ul>