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Øresund Link, Bridge, Denmark, Sweden, Georg Rotne
Danish Cultural Institute Lecture : Øresund Link - Bridge
Øresund Link : Bridge for Denmark & Sweden
'The Øresund
Link: Bridging Denmark and Sweden'
Georg Rotne, Architect, Associate Professor: School of Architecture,
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Review by Adrian Welch
Georg Rotne
Georg Rotne started the talk by showing us the Kylesku bridge in the
(North-West of Scotland), maybe to form a link in our minds between
Scotland and Denmark. The image was to be an important one as the
slides focused in on the trusses of the Øresund Link Bridge: the same
curvaceous form here repeated not four times, but around four hundred
times. After some shots of Venice and Palladian bridges Georg went
on to decry the predominating efficiency and economy of the Industrial
Revolution bridges, by the likes of Brunel and Stevenson.
The Øresund Link was introduced with a map showing both Denmark and
Sweden, followed by a breathtaking satellite photo of the Øresund:
the scale of the undertaking was phenomenally large, ranking with
Chek Lap Kok (airport) or the Great Wall of China. Georg was proud
of the bridge's solidity and monumentality, not aspects much in vogue
of late. He made some good points about the weakness of some of the
other five competing consortia: Calatrava's three bridges were too
detailed and focused on the 'ship' bridge forming just 1/8 of the
link. Rotne maintained that the bridge will almost always be seen
from the distance and should be designed with, 'simplicity, humanity
and straightfowardness'.
Georg finished the lecture by answering a never-ending stream of questions,
noting that one good aspect of the new link were the double-sized
Schnapps measures now found in some København bars: Swedish
measures!
Eighth Danish Cultural Institute Lecture: Øresund Link Talk: 27
Mar 2001 Edinburgh College of Art
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