A suspended pedestrian bridge with a 200-foot-tall angled mast and cables crosses Lincoln Memorial Drive at O'Donnell Park, linking the lakefront and museum to one of the city's main streets, Wisconsin Avenue.
Built along with the addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum, this suspension bridge crosses over a city street, connecting one of Milwaukee's major thoroughfares to the lakefront and giving pedestrians safe and easy access to the museum.
The bridge is built to look delicate and light, but was built so that there would be no need for support structures underneath. To keep the light feel, necessary as a complement to the form of the building it links to, Calatrava used a very tall angled mast. At 200 feet tall, the mast enables the support cables to pull against the bridge's wieght, and return to the building where they are anchored down.
With relatively little space, this bridge is deceptive in it's appearance, giving the impression that it is less formidable than it truly is.
Building a Masterpiece: Milwaukee Art Museum (Hardcover)
Santiago Calatrava: Milwaukee Art Museum, Quadracci Pavilion (Hardcover)
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