Ney & Partners: Bruggen over het Albertkanaal, een wandeling / Les Ponts du canal Albert, une promenade / Bridges across the Albert Canal, A Walk
Egon Verleye, Matthieu Maillé, Laurent Ney, Jean-Pierre Aelterman, Katrien Vandermarliere (Ed.), Corentin Haubruge (photography)
Ney & Partners, 2023
€45,00
In the mid-1990s, the ‘Flemish Waterways’ decided to ensure the future of inland navigation by raising existing bridges and building a significant number of new ones. Ney & Partners won the design brief in 2009 with the proposal for a generic steel arch bridge. The assignment, the procedure, the design and its technical elaboration are explained in this book.
Thirteen years later, Corentin Haubrugehas created a photographic inventory for Ney & Partners of the 21 bridges that have since been realised. The photo series is of stunning beauty. It shows a visible presence of the artwork in human use and in the natural and built environment. At the same time, the images resonate because they capture the invisible dimensions of time, light and matter.
This book is an unusual combination of a portrait of a part of Flanders and a comprehensive record of the processes behind a generic bridge design.
ISBN: 9789464775921
