Dezeen report on the unhinged planby a twain of Lusitanian designer who require to turn a giant iron bridge into a gargantuan repository by dismantle it and moving it from the River Douro — where it support idle — to the center of Porto , Portugal . The Maria Pia Bridge bridge was design in 1877 by Gustave Eiffel and it ’s larger than the famous tower . The entire plan sound phantasmagoric but it makes sense :
By relocating [ the bridge ] to the centre of the metropolis on a gamy position , [ it ] would regain profile but mostly another meaning , since it is released of the demand of being utile .
The intact dismantling and re - assembly project would only take five month and be $ 13.71 million .
Sadly , it did n’t win the contest organize by the city to revitalize its centre . Once the worldly concern ’s prospicient single - puckish bridge , it could have been a redoubtable monument at 196.85 feet ( 60 meter ) high with a 1158 foot ( 353 meter ) twosome , larger than the Eiffel Tower on its side ( 1063 foot , 324 meters . )
But the architects — and many in the community — are still tug for this beautiful projection to bump . Hopefully , if the economy gets good , they will reach their objetive one Clarence Shepard Day Jr. .
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