Yes, it′s a bridge: beloved by engineers and boring to most everyone else. But people, this thing is cool. We get to do a lot of projects on this show that are, well, luxuries. Hotels, museums, stadiums, sky-scrapers—the big, fancy projects cities get to do when they′re fat and comfy. But in Belgrade, still cleaning up its streets and its image from NATO bombings just eleven years ago, we got to focus on an essential: a bridge to cross the River Sava. Along with that basic need came an engineering challenge: how do you make a single-pylon cable-stay bridge with unequal sides? And a sociopolitical question: can a city fractured by ethnic fighting rebuild with a mixed labor force? We saw the answers firsthand and I can tell you, they were anything but boring. Oh, and standing on top of the 500-foot pylon was no snooze either.
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