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China's 900-year-old wood arch bridge known as the Wan'an bridge built in the Song Dynasty (960-1127) in Pingnan county, East China's Fujian Province, has been marred by fire on Saturday night ...
On Aug. 6, the 900-year-old Wan’an Bridge in Pingnan County, a locality of Ningde City in the coastal Fujian province, was destroyed when it suddenly burst into flames. A national-level protected ...
A drone photo taken on Aug. 18, 2022 shows the Rulong Bridge, a wooden arch bridge, in Qingyuan County of Lishui City, east China's Zhejiang Province.(Photo by Wu Chunping/Xinhua) Hu Junfeng takes ...
Kashkan Bridge is 300 meters long, and it originally had 11 columns and 12 arches, some parts of which are ruined or wiped away. Its height varies between 10 to 26 meters. An arch bridge carries loads ...
The Skew Arch Bridge, built in 1896 with an idiosyncratic design that spans a gorge in West Fairmount Park, was neglected for decades as its bricks became loose or fell out.
Part of the Trolley Trail that opened last year, the century-old skew arch bridge is getting a facelift. The skew arch bridge on Fairmount Park’s Trolley Trail is in its first round of repairs.
Schreiber says that while the Arch Bridge is covered in concrete, the infrastructure is metal. “So while it looks old-fashioned, it's actually very, very modern underneath,” he says.