What is as of 2017 the twenty-second highest bridge deck in the world, and beat the Kocher Viaduct for having the tallest pillars in the world?
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Kocher Viaduct On the Kocher Viaduct (German: "Kochertalbrücke" ) near Schwäbisch Hall in Germany the Autobahn 6 crosses the Kocher valley between Heilbronn and Nuremberg. With its maximum height of 185m above the valley bottom, it is the highest viaduct in Germany, and was also the bridge with the tallest pillars in the world before the Millau Viaduct, France was completed in 2004.
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Millau Viaduct The Millau Viaduct (French: "le Viaduc de Millau" , ] ) is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the gorge valley of the River Tarn near Millau in southern France. It is the tallest bridge in the world, with one mast's summit at 343.0 m above the base of the structure. In a Franco-British partnership, it was designed by the English architect Sir Norman Foster and French structural engineer Dr Michel Virlogeux, and as of 2017 it is the twenty-second highest bridge deck in the world, being 270 m between the road deck and the ground below.
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Hillbrow Tower The Hillbrow Tower (JG Strijdom tower) is a tall tower located in the suburb of Hillbrow in Johannesburg, South Africa. At 269 m , it has been the tallest structure and tower in Africa for 45 years, and it was also the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere until 1978, when surpassed by the 270 m Mount Isa Chimney in Queensland, Australia. Construction of the tower began in June 1968 and was completed three years later, in April 1971. Construction cost 2 million Rand (at the time, US$2.8 million). The tower was initially known as the JG Strijdom Tower, after JG Strijdom, South African Prime Minister from 1954 to 1958. On 31 May 2005 it was renamed the "Telkom Jo'burg Tower".
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Cordova Tower Cordova Tower is an observation tower located on the north side of Lake Red Rock in Knoxville, Iowa. The tower features the world's longest and tallest continuous set of fiberglass stairs, ascending from the ground to the observation deck built atop a converted 100 ft by 15 ft stand-pipe water tower. The structure stands 106 ft tall 106 ft , making it the largest observation tower in the Midwest.
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Detroit–Superior Bridge The Detroit–Superior Bridge (officially known as the Veterans Memorial Bridge) is a 3,112 foot (949 meter) long through arch bridge over the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio. The bridge links Detroit Avenue on Cleveland's west side and Superior Avenue on Cleveland's east side, terminating west of Public Square. Construction by the King Bridge Company began in 1914 and completed in 1918, at a cost of $5.4 million. It was the first fixed high level bridge in Cleveland, and the third high level bridge above the Cuyahoga (the first was the Old Superior Viaduct and the second the Central Viaduct, also built by the King Company). At the time of its completion, the bridge was the largest steel and concrete reinforced bridge in the world.
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Gillerberg Observation Tower The Gillerberg Observation Tower (German: Aussichtsturm Gillerberg or Gillerturm ) is a German steel lattice observation tower that was built in 1892. The Gillerberg Observation Tower is one of the oldest lattice towers in Germany and was renovated in 2004. The height of its observation deck is 15 metres above the ground.
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Python Bridge Python Bridge, officially known as High Bridge ("Hoge Brug"), is a bridge that spans the canal between Sporenburg and Borneo Island in Eastern Docklands, Amsterdam. It was built in 2001 and won the International Footbridge Award in 2002. The bright red bridge spans 90 meters and was designed by Adriaan Geuze of the architectural firm West 8. The bridge has stairs, requiring bicycles to be pushed on a stairway ramp.
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Mohaka Viaduct The Mohaka Viaduct is a railway viaduct spanning the Mohaka River in northern Hawke’s Bay, on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, near the small settlement of Raupunga. It was built between 1930 and 1937 by the Public Works Department (PWD) for the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR). It is 276.8 m in length, and at 95 m , is the tallest viaduct in Australasia.
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Ochsenkopf Transmitter The Ochsenkopf Transmitter (German: "Sender Ochsenkopf" }) is a 163-metre radio and TV tower of reinforced concrete, which was built in 1958 on the summit of the 1024-metre Ochsenkopf mountain, the second-highest mountain in the Fichtelgebirge mountain chain in Northern Bavaria, Germany. The tower replaced a 50-metre guyed steel tube TV mast that collapsed in January 1958 as result of icing. The tower, which is not accessible to the public, has a hyperbolic-shaped basement with five floors for technical equipment. Above it, there are platforms for directional antennas. The antennas for FM-transmission are on the upper part of the concrete tower, those for TV transmission on a steel tube mast on the top.
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Drežnik Viaduct The Drežnik Viaduct is located in Karlovac, Croatia, immediately to the south of the Karlovac interchange on the A1 motorway. It is the longest viaduct in Croatia, spanning 2485 m . It is executed in seven segments (225 m +270 m +4x408 m +358 m long), separated by expansion joints. The viaduct was constructed by Konstruktor, Split, as the main contractor, and Viadukt and Hidroelektra of Zagreb as subcontractors in 2000 and 2001.
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Kjøllsæter Bridge The Kjøllsæter Bridge (Norwegian "Kjøllsæterbrua") is a 158-metre-long (518 ft) wooden bridge that crosses the river Renaelva in Åmot, Hedmark in Norway. The bridge connects two large military training areas for the Rena Camp, and is built for tank guns and other heavy machines crossing it. It also gives the people living in Rød area a better road connection. The bridge is keeping the NATO standard, and stand 109 metric tons on a span of 30 metres. The Kjøllsæter Bridge is probably one of the strongest wooden bridges in the world. The clearance to the water is 5.5 metres.
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Bukit Putus Viaduct Bukit Putus Viaduct is the second highest bridge in Malaysia. The 48 metre tall bridge is located at Federal Route near Bukit Putus, Negeri Sembilan. It was opened on November 2009.
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Peak Walk Peak Walk is a pedestrian suspension bridge linking two mountain peaks in the Swiss Alps. It is situated in the Diablerets massif of the Bernese Alps in the canton of Vaud, and connects the peak of Scex Rouge with another peak. On the other peak is the viewpoint of the Glacier 3000 company. Scex Rouge is about 5 m higher than Glacier 3000's viewpoint. Peak Walk is the world's first suspension bridge which connects two mountain peaks.
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Gate of Europe The Gate of Europe towers (Spanish: "Puerta de Europa" ), also known as KIO Towers ("Torres KIO"), are twin office buildings in Madrid, Spain. The towers have a height of 114 m and have 26 floors. They were constructed from 1989 to 1996. The Puerta de Europa is the second tallest twin towers in Spain after the Torres de Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
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Langkawi Sky Bridge Langkawi Sky Bridge is a 125 m curved pedestrian cable-stayed bridge in Malaysia, completed in 2005. The bridge deck is located 660 m above sea level at the peak of Gunung Mat Chinchang on Pulau Langkawi, the main island of the Langkawi archipelago in Kedah. The Langkawi Sky Bridge can be reached by first taking the Langkawi Cable Car to the top station, where an inclined lift called SkyGlide takes visitors from the top station to the bridge.
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Rockville Bridge The Rockville Bridge, at the time of its completion in 1902, was, and remains, the longest stone masonry arch railroad viaduct in the world. Constructed between April 1900 and March 1902 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, it has forty-eight 70-foot spans, for a total length of 3820 ft .
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C215 Viaduct C215 Viaduct is a 20,000 m long box girder bridge completed in 2003, with a cost of around US$40 million. It is located in Taiwan and is part of the Taiwan High Speed Rail network.
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Saale-Elster Viaduct The Saale-Elster Viaduct is a railway bridge along the Erfurt–Leipzig/Halle_high-speed_railway in Germany. It was built in 2013 and it is 6465 m long and thereby the longest bridge in Germany. There is a branch of 2112 m length.
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Wicked Twister Wicked Twister is a second generation steel Inverted Impulse roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. As of 2017, it is the tallest and fastest inverted roller coaster in the world.
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St. Martin's Church, Landshut The Church of St. Martin in Landshut is a medieval church in the German city located in the state of Bavaria. St. Martin's Church, along with Trausnitz Castle and the celebration of the Landshuter Hochzeit (wedding), are the most important landmarks and historical events of Landshut. This Brick Gothic landmark is the tallest church in Bavaria, and the tallest brick building as well as church in the world. It is also the 2nd tallest brick structure in the world (after Anaconda Smelter Stack), made without steel supports. St. Martin's church has a height of 130.6 m .
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Intercity Viaduct The Intercity Viaduct (officially the Lewis and Clark Viaduct since 1969) is an automobile and pedestrian crossing of the Kansas River in the United States. Designed by Waddell and Hedrick, this four lane, two level deck truss bridge was built in 1907. It rises above the West Bottoms, and several sets of railroad tracks. It was the first roadway bridge to connect Kansas City, Missouri, with Kansas City, Kansas, non-stop all the way across. It is about 1.5 mi long and carries eastbound traffic for Interstate 70 (I-70)/U.S. Route 24 (US 24)/US 40/US 169, while its sister bridge, the Lewis and Clark Viaduct, built in 1962, carries westbound traffic.
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Euromast Euromast is an observation tower in Rotterdam, Netherlands, designed by Hugh Maaskant constructed between 1958 and 1960. It was specially built for the 1960 Floriade, and is a listed monument since 2010. The tower is a concrete structure with an internal diameter of 9 m and a wall thickness of 30 cm . For stability it is built on a concrete block of 1900000 kg so that the centre of gravity is below ground. It has a "crow's nest" observation platform 96 m above-ground and a restaurant. Originally 101 m in height it was the tallest building in Rotterdam. It lost this position to the high-rise of Erasmus MC (113.5 m ) which was completed in 1968, but regained it when the Space Tower was added to the top of the building in 1970, giving an additional 85 m . Euromast is a member of the World Federation of Great Towers. In 2008 and 2009, the tower hosted an extreme sports event which featured BASE jumping.