Bell's Bridge Glasgow

An image taken at Blue Hour of Bell's Bridge, on the River Clyde at Glasgow's Waterfront.

Bell's Bridge. From the Scottish Exhibition Centre to the Glasgow Garden Festival site. A footbridge completed in April 1988 for the Scottish Development Agency: engineer Crouch & Hogg, builder Lilley Construction, mechanical design and construction Barback & Primrose; consultant architect Boswell Mitchell & Johnston. The deck and steel plate girders which form both sides of the bridge are gently arched from quay to quay in a symmetrical curve, supported by a structure which is original in form and detail. Three spans, the N one supported simply by the quay wall and a pier in the river, the remaining two spans balanced about a second pier as a pair of cable-stayed cantilevers, this whole unit being designed to pivot on the pier, opening the river for the passage of tall vessels. As all the cables radiate from a point high on a tapered pylon which rises from the pier at the middle of the bridge's width, they slope laterally and the plate girders of the whole bridge have a corresponding inward tilt - a purposeful and interesting form, to which gaiety is added by the upward extension of the pylon to a needle point and a translucent canopy cantilevered out like many butterfly wings from a line of steel coluimns and beams along the middle of the deck. Unfortunately, some engineering detail is hidden by enclosing the cables in plastic sheathing and their connexions to the girders in black steel boxes.

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