A golden
bridge held up by two enormous stone-coloured hands has opened in the Ba Na
hills, near Da Nang in central Vietnam. Cau Vang (meaning the Golden Bridge)
opened in June, is 150 metres long and 1,400 metres above sea level, with views
across the green mountainscape. It took just under a year to construct, with
initial designs by TA Landscape Architecture.
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The true wow
factor comes from the sculpted hands. Although they look like they're carved
from stone, they are actually not.
“We designed the skeleton of the hands and covered them with steel meshes,” a representative of TA Landscape Architecture said, “then we finished with fiberglass and added the theming on it. The entire construction of the bridge took about a year.”
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The Ba Na
hills mountain retreat was a favourite holiday location for the ruling French
authorities in the early 20th century but fell into ruin after the revolution
against colonial rule in 1945. The area is now home to a replica French village
and gardens, along with a 5.8km cable car track – once the world’s longest and
highest – as well as a cavernous concrete amusement complex, hidden beneath the
kitsch-looking village.
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Via The Guardian
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