Word: zaha
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Dates: during 1996-1996
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...nostalgia. It was calculated that the 820-ft. bridge would need to carry 147,000 sq. ft. of shops and housing to be financially self-supporting, and the architects knew that obscuring the famous view from Waterloo to St. Paul's Cathedral would be fatal. Iraqi-born English architect Zaha Hadid's plan, which shared first prize with French designer Antoine Grumbach's, is all cantilevered glass and steel with the bulkiest parts of the structure at either end so as to interrupt the view as little as possible. Grumbach devised an open-air suspension bridge with a greenhouse...