The activities of tourism and leisure for coastal areas of northern Taiwan are becoming ever more developed. Taipei Port and its connecting road network have been completed, Danhai New Town and its road systems are being developed, and tourist attractions like Fisherman's Wharf and Shisanhang Museum of Archaeology have been completed. In addition, traffic congestion around Guandu Bridge and the Zhuwei Section of Provincial Highway No. 2 is in dire need of a solution.

Zaha Hadid Architects has been announced as winner of the Danjiang Bridge International Competition in Taiwan. Design bridge has single-tower and will be world's longest  built cable-stayed bridge. A collaboration with Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner, the Danjiang Bridge will be located at the mouth of Tamsui River, adjacent to Taiwan Strait.

It will connect Provincial Highway No. 2, No. 15, No. 61 (Xibin Highway) and No. 64 (Bali-Xindian Highway). Upon completion, access between Tamsui and Bali will no longer involve detouring via Guandu Bridge--a resulting reduction of 15 km in travel distance (Saving about 25 minutes traveling time)--while making the northern seashore highway system more comprehensive. Furthermore, Danjiang Bridge with its location at the Tamsui river mouth is destined to make a conspicuous landmark. Taking the considerations of the requirement of Tamsui sunset landscape maintenance, preservation of cultural assets, environmental protection, and promotion of tourism and recreational activities in the region, an appealing design and economic benefits will be key issue to integrate with Tamsui sunset and make Danjiang Bridge a proud new landmark in Taiwan against the backdrop of Tamsui's famous sunset.

As ZHA director Patrik Schumacher describes, the new bridge was designed to "make a conspicuous landmark against the backdrop of Tamsui's famous sunset."

 

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Zaha Hadid, (Bagdad, 31 October 1950 – Miami, 31 March 2016) founder of Zaha Hadid Architects, was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize (considered to be the Nobel Prize of architecture) in 2004 and is internationally known for both her theoretical and academic work.

Each of her dynamic and innovative projects builds on over thirty years of revolutionary exploration and research in the interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture and design. Hadid’s interest lies in the rigorous interface between architecture, landscape and geology as her practice integrates natural topography and human-made systems, leading to experimentation with cutting-edge technologies. Such a process often results in unexpected and dynamic architectural forms.

Education: Hadid studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977.

Teaching: She became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, taught at the AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, and later led her own studio at the AA until 1987. Since then she has held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois, School of Architecture, Chicago; guest professorships at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg; the Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio and the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture and Commander of the British Empire, 2002. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and was the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Awards: Zaha Hadid’s work of the past 30 years was the subject of critically-acclaimed retrospective exhibitions at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2006, London’s Design Museum in 2007 and the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy in 2009. Her recently completed projects include the MAXXI Museum in Rome; which won the Stirling award in 2010. Hadid’s outstanding contribution to the architectural profession continues to be acknowledged by the most world’s most respected institutions. She received the prestigious ‘Praemium Imperiale’ from the Japan Art Association in 2009, and in 2010, the Stirling Prize – one of architecture’s highest accolades – from the Royal Institute of British Architects. Other recent awards include UNESCO naming Hadid as an ‘Artist for Peace’ at a ceremony in their Paris headquarters last year. Also in 2010, the Republic of France named Hadid as ‘Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ in recognition of her services to architecture, and TIME magazine included her in their 2010 list of the ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’. This year’s ‘Time 100’ is divided into four categories: Leaders, Thinkers, Artists and Heroes – with Hadid ranking top of the Thinkers category.

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Published on: August 12, 2015
Cite: "Zaha Hadid Architects win Danjiang Bridge Competition " METALOCUS. Accessed
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