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Technical Specifications:
Location: Dique 3
Neighbourhood: Puerto Madero
Opening: 2001
Architects: Santiago Calatrava
Buses: 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 29, 33, 45, 50, 54, 55.
This pedestrian bridge is the first work by Valencian architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava in Latin America.
It has 160 meters long and 6 meters wide. Its metallic mast raises 39 meters. The bridge (of an estimated weight of 800 tons) is prepared to move every time a ship needs to pass through. Its turn mechanism is one of the biggest of the world, with 20 electric engines in its main axis, which are commanded by a computer.
The work (donated to the city by a businessman) was built in Spain and moved in parts to Buenos Aires in many shipments.
The artistic profile of the work is interpreted by the author as the figure of a couple dancing tango, where the white mast represents the man, and the curved silhouette of the bridge represents the woman.
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