Constitution Bridge

2021-09-25

Venice’s Grand Canals’ 4th and ultimate bridge became hooked up as recently as 2008. The arched truss bridge has a stairway paved with pietra d'Istria (a sort of Venetian Stone) and illuminable tempered glass. Despite its great intentions, the bridge gets a whole lot of hate for 2 major problems: loss of disabled accessibility, and the intense dissonance between its minimal-modernist style and Venice’s widespread Baroque opulence. Heck, Venetian’s hate it so much; they call the bridge ‘Calatrava’, which means that ‘the Dinosaur’. The Constitution Bridge is one in every of four over the Grand Canal in Venice. It changed into designed with the aid of Santiago Calatrava and positioned into use in September 2008. Due to the lack of a wheelchair ramp and the style incompatible with the medieval architecture of Venice, the construction of the bridge triggered a lot of public competition and its opening became delayed. Another argument changed into the dearth of a bridge connecting Venice and the island of Giudecca. Due to several protests via citizens, in 2010 a gadget of lifting elevators become established on the Bridge of the Constitution enabling the use of the bridge for the aged in addition to the disabled.