London Knight Architects witt engineers AKTII has beaten a top-secret shortlist to design a pedestrian bridge in Paddington Basin, London. The High Wycombe-based bridge specialist is the third practice to work up a crossing fc the site, which currently hosts a temporary structure by sculptor Marcus Taylor known as the Helix Bridge. Knight Architects'20-metre long moving structure, which opens with an action 'similar to that of a traditional Japanese hand fan,'is one of the final pieces of the canalside area's 32-hectare regeneration.
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