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This cable-stayed balanced bridge with two unequal spans provides vehicular traffic and pedestrians access crossing the Liffey River. It is also designed to a 90-degree horizontal rotation to free the river channel for water transport crossing the river.
Architect Santiago Calatrava was the lead designer of the bridge. He was assisted with the civil and structural aspects of the design by Roughan & O'Donovan consulting engineers. This was the second bridge in the area designed by Calatrava, the first being the James Joyce Bridge, which is further upriver.
- 2007
- 120 metres (390 ft)
- 10 December 2009
- River Liffey
Feb 8, 2019 · Famed architect Santiago Calatrava designed the bridge. He built it in the shape of a harp, with 31 cable stays of varying lengths attached to a curving pylon that soars 157 feet (48 meters)...
A mere flip of a coin - an Irish harp rotating through the air - inspired Santiago Calatrava’s sleek, asymmetric, signature bridge for Dublin. Coolly contemporary in style, yet conceptually traditional, the Samuel Beckett Bridge is in perfect tune with its edgy, historic Docklands surrounds.
Courtesy of Santiago Calatrava. The Samuel Beckett bridge is a cable stayed, steel box girder structure with a span of 123 meters over the Liffey, which rotates through 90 degrees. The pylon curves northwards to a point 48 meters above the water level with 25 cables set in a harp formation.
Calatrava Bridge was named for Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. It is the second signature bridge in the Irish capital, after James Joyce. Calatrava thought I could be a second bridge to honor the symbol of the country: the Celtic harp.
