| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Chicago, Illinois, United States | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1999-2004 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Gehry, Frank Owen | en_US |
| dc.creator | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | en_US |
| dc.date | 1999-2004 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-02-27T15:21:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-02-27T15:21:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999-2004 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 196926 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 1580 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/104434 | |
| dc.description | Detail of the stainless steel wall near the entry on the east side; BP Pedestrian Bridge or simply BP Bridge is a pedestrian bridge crossing Columbus Drive in the Loop community area of Chicago that connects Millennium Park to Daley Bicentennial Plaza in Grant Park. The girder bridge is the first bridge designed by Pritzker Prize-winner, Gehry, and was named for British Petroleum who donated $5 million to the construction of the Park. The bridge is designed with a continuous slope rather than landings and switchback ramps, and it has a modest 5% slope to allow easy access for the physically challenged. The bridge was designed to serve two purposes: as a link between the Loop and the Lake Michigan lakefront, and also as a berm sound barrier between the vehicular traffic noise on the six-lane Columbus Drive and the stereophonic sounds of the Park's outdoor bandshell (Jay Pritzker Pavilion) by deflecting traffic sounds upward. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/12/2008) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | steel girders; reinforced concrete deck slabs and abutments; stainless steel veneer panels; Brazilian hardwood deck | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | contemporary (1960 to present) | en_US |
| dc.subject | bridges (built works) | en_US |
| dc.subject | pedestrian bridge | en_US |
| dc.subject | steel clad | en_US |
| dc.subject | acoustics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Twenty-first century | en_US |
| dc.title | BP Pedestrian Bridge | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Millennium Park: BP Pedestrian Bridge | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 2A2-US-CH-MP-2-A31 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | American | en_US |
| vra.technique | construction (assembling) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | bridge (built work) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Frank Owen Gehry (American architect, born 1929); Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (American architectural firm, founded 1939) | en_US |
