Hello Great Ones,
Hong Kong is a city of amazing man made structures. This is due to the challenges of a rugged landscape, islands, the sea, and having to pack eight million people in a very limited space. One of the great challenges facing Hong Kong is being able to transport 8 million people around the territory with some ease. One of the most amazing structures to help this process is the Stonecutter's Bridge which opened just in 2009.
It is the second largest cable stayed bridge (whatever that means) in the world. Due to the interesting challenge and extreme difficulty of building the bridge it was featured in two Discovery Channel Extreme Engineering series.
It won the 2010 Supreme Award at the Structural Awards in London. Never heard of that but it must be like winning a Grammy Award. Ha ha. The bridge is 1.6 km long, high enough that ships can go underneath and it cost 356 million US to make. Whoa.
On Wednesday I had a day off and went biking with a friend. To get to my friend's place I had to bike underneath and past the Stonecutter's Bridge. It was pretty amazing.
Well I hope you all had a pretty good week.
Love adios and peng on,
Dirk
Hong Kong is a city of amazing man made structures. This is due to the challenges of a rugged landscape, islands, the sea, and having to pack eight million people in a very limited space. One of the great challenges facing Hong Kong is being able to transport 8 million people around the territory with some ease. One of the most amazing structures to help this process is the Stonecutter's Bridge which opened just in 2009.
It is the second largest cable stayed bridge (whatever that means) in the world. Due to the interesting challenge and extreme difficulty of building the bridge it was featured in two Discovery Channel Extreme Engineering series.
It won the 2010 Supreme Award at the Structural Awards in London. Never heard of that but it must be like winning a Grammy Award. Ha ha. The bridge is 1.6 km long, high enough that ships can go underneath and it cost 356 million US to make. Whoa.
On Wednesday I had a day off and went biking with a friend. To get to my friend's place I had to bike underneath and past the Stonecutter's Bridge. It was pretty amazing.
Well I hope you all had a pretty good week.
Love adios and peng on,
Dirk
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