LEADERSHIP QUOTE OF THE DAY (23 May 2012): You gain STRENGTH| COURAGE AND CONFIDENCE by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
MAN MADE
MAN MADE: Zaragoza Bridge
In a Glass of its Own
The Expo Zaragoza 2008 in Spain will be no small event. Running along the Ebro River from 14 June to 14 September 2008 with the theme “Water and Sustainable Development,” entries from 83 countries will do everything they can to wow a projected audience of six million attendees with over 3,400 performances.
It somehow seems fitting then, that the entrance to the Expo will be an attraction in itself. At 275 metres, the long Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion will be made from glass fibre-reinforced concrete that forms 29,000 triangles of different shades of grey. The project will cost over 1.5 million Euros and has been designed by Iraqi-British architect and professor, Zaha Hadid, who in 2004 became the first female recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. The prolific Hadid has a raft of other creative projects under her belt including the new city casino of Basel, Switzerland, the Guggenheim Museum in Taiwan, the National Centre of Contemporary Arts in Rome, the Bergisel Ski Jump in Innsbruck, Austria and the library for the Seville University, Spain.