Most construction steelwork is designed to stay more or less where it is ― even cable structure. But as bridges have recently started to take a serious place in the architectural canon, the issue of articulated architecture is happily raised once again, once only respectable in the realms of Archigram. The two bridge designs for Bell-mouth Passage in London's Docklands, one by Birds Portchmouth Russum (BPR) and the other by Patel Taylor, demonstrate these ideas. Each was engineered by separate design teams at Techniker. Ironically, the winning Patel Taylor design was changed radically by the client and now resembles, in mechanical engineering terms at least, the BPR design, which later received first prize in the AJ/Bovis Lendlease award for the best architectural work exhibited at the 2002 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
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