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The Sundial Bridge spans the Sacramento River in Redding, California. It was designed by Santiago Calatrava and completed in 2004 at a cost of $19,700,000. A spring at the Sacramento River headwater The Sacramento River is the longest river in the state of California. ... Redding from space, April 1994 Redding is the county seat of Shasta County, California, USA, located on the Sacramento River and on Interstate 5 south of Lake Shasta. ... Calatrava is known for his organically inspired designs, such as LUmbracle at his Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències in Valencia. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


This pedestrian bridge features a single 217 foot (66m) mast that serves as a sundial, which can be read in a garden to the north of the bridge. It connects the two sections of Turtle Bay Exploration Park. Wall sundial Wall sundial in Warsaws Old Town A sundial measures time by the position of the sun. ... The Turtle Bay Exploration Park (300 acres, including 200 acres of undeveloped arboretum and 20 acres of botanical garden) spans the Sacramento River in Redding, California, USA. The Park began in the mid 1980s when three Redding museums began talks to construct a museum complex on 60 acres, and gradually...


The deck is surfaced with transparent structural glass, with a view of the water below as one crosses. The walkway and river are illuminated from beneath the deck at night. It is 700 feet (213m) in length and crosses the river without once touching the water. The cable stays are not centered on the walkway but instead divide the bridge into a major and minor path.


The Sundial Bridge is based on Calatrava's similar bridge design, the Alamillo bridge in Seville, Spain, built in 1992. The Alamillo Bridge in Seville, Spain spans the Guadalquivir River and was completed in 1992 by Santiago Calatrava. ... The Giralda Tower Seville (Spanish: Sevilla) is the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain, crossed by the river Guadalquivir. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


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Download high resolution version (1024x710, 275 KB)Sundial Bridge, Redding, California. ... Download high resolution version (585x1024, 207 KB)Sundial Bridge, Redding, California. ... Download high resolution version (585x1024, 294 KB)Sundial Bridge, Redding, California. ... Download high resolution version (585x1024, 235 KB)Sundial Bridge, Redding, California. ... Download high resolution version (585x1024, 271 KB)Sundial Bridge, Redding, California. ...

See also

This article is about the edifice. ... Sunshine Skyway, Tampa Bay, Florida Millau viaduct in France A cable_stayed bridge is a bridge that consists of one or more pillars, with cables supporting the roadbed. ...

External links

Sundial Bridge official site (http://www.turtlebay.org/bridge/)
Sundial Bridge Virtual Tour (http://www.virtuar.com/california/sundial/)


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Sundial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2949 words)
The classic garden sundial uses the same principle, except the lines of the disk are projected, using trigonometry, onto a face that is parallel to the ground.
A cardioid is the shape that connects the intersections between the solar-time marks of a conventional sundial, and the equal-angles of a true clock-time face.
Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay — a single spar cable stayed bridge that casts a shadow into a garden where the time may be read.
Bridge - definition of Bridge - Labor Law Talk Dictionary (5202 words)
Since most early bridges of this type were constructed largely of wood, it is typical that they are either formed from treated wood (typically using creosote) or are protected with a roof and enclosed in building-like siding, forming a covered bridge.
These rope bridges must of course be periodically renewed owing to the limited lifetime of the materials, and rope components are made and contributed by families as contributions to a community endevor.
A bridge type combining elements of a suspended-deck suspension bridge and a cable stayed bridge has been proposed as a replacement for the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and would be the largest bridge this type constructed.
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