Archinect - News 2024-11-05T05:49:45-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/145117570/rejected-leonardo-da-vinci-design-will-finally-come-to-life-as-world-s-longest-ice-bridge 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> https://archinect.com/news/article/103093761/gaud-s-uncompleted-masterpiece-will-finally-be-finished-in-ice Gaudí’s uncompleted masterpiece will finally be finished—in ice Alexander Walter 2014-06-30T13:54:00-04:00 >2014-06-30T13:57:26-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/5f/5f5bf0116cfe2a91583ec8337a869c36?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>A group of students at the Eindhoven University of Technology are trying to build a new, temporary version of the monumental church well before then, but with some notable differences. At just over 123 feet tall, their Sagrada Familia will be a 1:4 model of the original. It will be erected on a site in Finland, almost 2,000 miles north of Barcelona. It will take them three weeks to build it this winter, rather than a century. And instead of stone, it will be constructed out of ice.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>