Campo Volantín Footbridge

Bilbao

IN SHORT

The Campo Volantin Footbridge provides a strikingly modern pedestrian crossing of the Neruion River estuary, midway between Bilbao's Parque Etxabarria and City Hall and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The bridge has a total span of 75 meters (246 feet). Its principal structural element is an arch that is 15.3 meters deep (50 feet). In 1990, Calatrava created a design for what was then known as the Uribitarte Bridge site, on behalf of a client engaged in an exchange of land with the Municipality of Bilbao. The present design was commissioned in 1994 by a new client — the local government — which was sympathetic to the original idea of making an urban statement but wanted to avoid any association with the project's previous circumstances.

YEAR

1990 - 1997

ADDRESS

Zubizuri
48007 Bilbao
Bizkaia
Spain