Steel lattice design picked for footbridge
The winning design in the Salisbury Street bridge competition is an open, steel, lattice structure with a concrete deck. It will cost $63,000 The Christchurch City Council ran the competition to find a design for the footbridge to be built across the Avon into Hagley Park in Park Terrace, opposite Salisbury Street.
Mr Morten Gjerde, an architect, aged 30, working for Warren and Mahoney, Ltd, was one of 11 engineers, architects and landscape architects who submitted designs. It was the only design that was uniquely a footbridge rather than a small traffic bridge. It has open lattice sides, a concrete deck and is
supported on a steel box beam. It has a handrail in brass and a circular tiled area in the centre. Mr Gjerde’s design will cost $55,000. Design and supervision fees will cost $5200 and embankment filling and footpaths will add $3OOO. The 11 entries ranged in costs from $43,600 to $84,000.
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Press, 17 November 1987, Page 9
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