Bering Strait Project

Bering Strait Project

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THE PROJECT

The Bering strait is the place where the barrier of time, space, history and ideology are revealed most dramatically. The goal of the project is to build a bridge or a tunnel bridging the gap of space and time, to lay a world highway running from London to New York, from the Cape of Good Hope to Santiago. Eventually, it aims to remove the barrier of human race, culture, religion, and nations by letting this obstructed way flow and to bring peace to the world.

What the FPU proposes for the Bering Strait Project can be rephrased as an elimination of all the barriers like spatial disconnection of national borders and chronological disconnection of today and tomorrow, and thus, stepping forward to peace and prosperity for all earth and mankind.

The Bering Strait is a seaway between Cape Prince of Wales of the United States and Cape Dezhnev of Russia and a gate between Pacific Ocean and Arctic Ocean. The Bering Strait Project has the following significances in that it attempts to connect two continents at both ends of the strait.

First, it is an enormous challenge and a historical event showing the human spirit of challenge and the dream for the future society. It brings the message that mankind should be prepared for the future world of harmony and connection rather than of separation and disjunction. This project will be a new attempt for the future society.

Second, this kind of a large scale project requires mutual efforts of not only America and Russia but also all the people and nations, no matter who they are. Through the process, mankind can cooperate and communicate with each other better.

Third, with two continents connected and transportation routes completed, exploitation of natural resources at Alaska and Siberia will be accelerated and thus, today's concerns on natural resources crisis could be alleviated. The Bering Strait Project is not only for physical connection but also contribution to the peace and prosperity of the world.

This project is a dream project attempting to connect two continents. In a wide sense, it includes building a tunnel or a bridge at both ends of the strait, extending an existing railways of the United States and Russia, and laying a world highway around the coasts of the world, which require a massive amount of construction.

Once the connection is made, the railway will go through both Uelen of Russia and Cape Prince of Wales of the United States linking the North American Rail System. A new highway will link the existing coastal highway of Uelen - Dezhnev - Tunytlino at Russia and Wales - Tin City - York at the United States.

The scope of the competition includes:

A design proposal of a peace park with a bridging structure using the two islands, Big Diomede and Little Diomede at the Bering Strait to symbolize the continuation of two continents.

An idea proposal of how to connect two continents.

The design proposal should stress out the fact that two continents are to be connected. Force of Nature divided the continent into two and the disjunction of people and nation due to this separation has been maintained for a long time.

Now two continents will be connected once again. Therefore, an entrant should express this meaning of connection in his/her work. In other words, a work should show visually and physically the link of these two Diomedes which represent the overcome of time gap and nation's border set by human.

The Promoter also encourages two Diomede Islands (American one in the front and Russian one in the back) various ideas for the connection and its means and method. The Promoter does not anticipate a technically and realistically perfect solution, however, certain level of a technical clarification for building a tunnel or a bridge in an extreme condition and harsh weather of the Bering Strait is recommended to be included in the design proposal.

For the reference, the connection line indicated in this design guideline can be adjusted or re-established because it is a virtual one.

Announcement of the Competition Results

The jury unanimously selected the followings as the winners for the International Ideas Competition for the Bering Strait Project :

1. Professional Category

￭ 1st Prize(USD 55,000)

- Diomede Archipelago : Julian Restrepo (COLOMBIA)

Pablo Forero (COLOMBIA)

Manuela Mosquera (COLOMBIA)

Susana Somoza (VENEZUELA)

Tomas Jaramillo (COLOMBIA)

￭ 2nd Prize(each USD 25,000)

- BERING STRAIT : Rachdi Manal (France)

architecture OFF (France)

- Bridge the Memory : Jaeik Sim (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Hyunwook Woo (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Daekwon Park (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Jonghyuk Lim (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Dongjin Lee (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

- IMPRINTED TIME : Jitaek Shim (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

SUNG HOON CHUNG (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Seung Youp Lee (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Seung Hwan Shim (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Sung Gi Park (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

￭ 3rd Prize(each USD 10,000)

- Entanglement : Evelyn Alonso (SPAIN)

Sara Sarmiento (SPAIN)

Manuel Perez (SPAIN)

- Nebula : Marek Rytych (POLAND)

Krzysztof Kryska (POLAND)

Malgorzata Piotrowska (POLAND)

Pasternak Karol (POLAND)

Radek Tabor (POLAND)

￭ Honorable Mention

- CONNECT FIVE : Jessica Liew (AUSTRALIA)

Clare Kwok (AUSTRALIA)

Zi Yang Boon (AUSTRALIA)

Elissa Loh (AUSTRALIA)

Irene Ng (AUSTRALIA)

- DIOMEDE PLANE : Laurent Troost (BRAZIL)

- LIGHT OF PEACE : Jacob Forsberg (SWEDEN)

Helen Hallberg (SWEDEN)

- SUSPENDED TIME : Ben Addy (UNITED KINGDOM)

2. Student Category

￭ 1st Prize(USD 15,000)

- Nature Must Colonize Human : Taegon Kim (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

SeongJae Lee (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Joohui Son (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

￭ 2nd Prize(each USD 10,000)

- Gone with the wind : Hyunil Oh (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Jongwon Lee (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Jaesuk Choi (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Sangyoon Lee (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

- RISING LAND : Jannik Duellmann (GERMANY)

Philipp Lueffe (GERMANY)

Pascal Maas (GERMANY)

￭ 3rd Prize(each USD 5,000)

- INVISIBLE BRIDGE : Hyungi Kim (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Jihwan Moon (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Tahn Shin (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Sungyeol Choi (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Hanbyul Rhee (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)


- SOLID LINKING : Antoine Denieau (FRANCE)

- Trans Bering Strait Tunnel & International Peace Park Memorial

: Julian Huang (UNITED KINGDOM)

Vimal Mehta (UNITED KINGDOM)

James Petty (UNITED STATES)

Hongtao Wei (CHINA)


￭ Honorable Mention

- BREAKWATER : Joohyung Oh (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Yunsuk Lee (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Doosan Baek (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)


- Invisible Bridge : DeokKi Hong (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

JaeKyu Han (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

WooYoung Park (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

DaeSoon Kim (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Seok Choo (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)


- Moving island : HeuckJin Jung (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

HwanSuk Choi (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

DaeHyun Kim (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)


- SMILE ! : Piotr Bialobrzeski (POLAND)

Marcin Kulesza (POLAND)


- The Heteropia : Sung Jun Bae (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Hyo Young Park (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Jae Won Heo (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

Jung Jae Park (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)


The jury unanimously agreed on the redistribution of the prize money and the number of second and third prize winners on the basis of the competition regulation.

THE WINNER PROJECT: TO BUILD AND ARCHIPELAGO

WINNER'S WEB PAGE (COLOMBIA & VENEZUELA): http://www.taller301.com/

http://www.bering-competition.org/

More images and details of Winners coming soon

thats a huge project!!

seeker401 wrote:thats a huge project!!

And you know what that means....LOL..Somebody is paying for it all...

Someone really likes Bridges ??
The Sunda Straits Bridge between Java & Sumatra Island Will be the Longest Suspension Bridge in the World
http://bimp-online.blogspot.com/2009/08/sunda-straits-bridge-between-java.html


The governors of the Indonesian provinces of Banten and Lampung have signed a memorandum with a consortium led by Wiratman & Associates and PT Artha Graha Network to build a 30 kilometre bridge between Java and Sumatra, the Jakarta Post reported Thursday.


The newspaper quoted Banten governor Ratu Atut Chosiah as saying it will cost an estimated 10 billion US dollars to build the bridge.

The bridge across the Sunda Strait will connect Merak Port in western Java with Bakauheni Port in southern Sumatra, and is expected to alleviate chronic traffic congestion at the Merak-Bakauheni ferry crossing.

Ratu Atut was quoted as saying a preliminary study will start later this year and is expected to be completed in 2009. It will take three more years to conduct a feasibility study before construction can begin in 2012.

The project is expected to be completed in 2025, she said.

The bridge will have six road lanes and two railway tracks. It will rise 70 meters above the sea.

A Wiratman and Associates engineer said the bridge, which will only be 50 kilometres from the active volcano Krakatau, will be built with flexible but strong materials to withstand earthquakes and strong winds

Penang Bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang_Bridge


The Penang Bridge (Jambatan Pulau Pinang in Malay) is a dual-carriageway toll bridge that connects Gelugor on the island of Penang and Seberang Prai on the mainland of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula. The bridge is also linked to the North-South Expressway in Prai and Jelutong Expressway in Penang. It was officially opened to traffic on September 14, 1985. The total length of the bridge is 13.5 km (8.4 miles), making it among the longest bridges in the world, the longest bridge in the country as well as a national landmark. Penang Bridge Sdn Bhd (PBSB) is the concession holder which manages it. The bridge was designed by a local Penang resident, Tan Sri Datuk Professor Ir. Chin Fung Kee, a well known authority in geotechnical engineering and former acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Malaya.

Before 1985, transportation between the island and the mainland was solely dependent on the state-owned Penang Ferry Service that runs between Butterworth and George Town.

Similar to the ferry services in Penang, toll is only paid when heading to the island. There is no charge for leaving the island.

Currently, the Penang Bridge is being expanded from 4 lanes to 6 lanes to accommodate the increasing traffic on the bridge. A proposal for a second bridge, the Penang Second Bridge, has been approved by the Malaysian federal government and included as one of the Ninth Malaysia Plan national projects. Construction work of the new Penang Second Bridge began in November 2008, and the target completion date is May 2012.

Recently, the Penang Bridge was assigned its own route number.

Stonecutters Bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonecutters_Bridge
http://www.stonecuttersbridge.net/en/main.htm
http://www.nce.co.uk/home/structures/hong-kong-stonecutters-bridge-open-for-operation/5212283.article?referrer=RSS
Stonecutters Bridge is a high level cable-stayed bridge which spans the Rambler Channel in Hong Kong, connecting Nam Wan Kok, Tsing Yi Island and Stonecutters Island. The bridge deck was completed on 7 April 2009[1], making this the second longest cable-stayed span in the world, and is scheduled for opening to traffic on 20 December 2009.[2]

The approaches at Tsing Yi and Stonecutters Island are located near Container Terminal 9 and Container Terminal 8, respectively. Construction commenced on 27 April 2004 by Maeda–Hitachi–Yokogawa–Hsin Chong Joint Venture. It costs HK$ 2,760 million. It was reported to be overbudget.

The bridge is part of Hong Kong's Route 8, connecting Sha Tin, Cheung Sha Wan, Tsing Yi Island, Ma Wan and Lantau Island. Other major constructions along the route are Nam Wan Tunnel (completed in 2008), Eagle's Nest Tunnel (completed in 2008), Sha Tin Heights Tunnel (completed in 2008), Tsing Ma Bridge (completed in 1997) and Kap Shui Mun Bridge (completed in 1997).

As a result of the interesting challenges and extreme difficulty in constructing this bridge, the project was featured on the Discovery Channel's Extreme Engineering series in 2006.

Ada Bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Bridge
The Ada bridge or Sava bridge is a on going construction of a new bridge over the Sava river in Belgrade, Serbia. The bridge will cross over the tip of Ada Ciganlija island. Construction began in 2008 and is scheduled to be completed by 2011. The bridge will significantly reduce traffic passing through the city centre and the older Gazela Bridge. This new bridge will be a part of the internal magistral ring, it will also carry a third of Belgrade's metro lines, connecting the outer parts of New Belgrade with the central areas. The project is expected to cost 160 million euros in total. The bridge's main tower will be 200 metre's tall.[1][2]
http://www.savabridge.com/

Construction of Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge to begin
By Zhao Chunzhe (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-12-03 13:37
http://www.chinadaily.cn/china/2009-12/03/content_9110862.htm
http://www.hyd.gov.hk/eng/major/road/projects/6787th/

Construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge will begin the end of December, the Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.

The project, which is a series of bridges, tunnels and roads that will rival the longest bridges in the world, is designed to more closely connect Hong Kong with Macao and the Mainland.

"The State Council has announced the approval of the 'research report of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge'. The project is under busy preparation and will start at the year end, and is slated to be finished in 2015," Cai Qiwen, a vice director of the transportation department of Guangdong province, was quoted as saying.

Strait of Messina Bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Messina_Bridge
http://www.bestofsicily.com/mag/art56.htm

The Strait of Messina Bridge is a planned suspension bridge across the Strait of Messina, a narrow section of water between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of mainland Italy. Construction plans for the bridge have finally been revived despite years of discussion, preplanning and disagreement. In 2006, under Prime Minister Romano Prodi the project was cancelled.[1] However, on 6 March 2009, as part of a massive new public works programme, Silvio Berlusconi's government announced that construction of the Messina bridge would indeed go ahead, pledging €1.3 billion as a contribution to the bridge's total cost, estimated at €6.1 billion.[2] If completed, the bridge will be the largest suspension bridge in the world, almost doubling the main span of the Akashi-Kaikyo

Berlusconi believes work will be completed by 2016.[9]

The tower design is a 'lambda' shape
Slender substitute
Published: May 27, 2009
http://www.bridgeweb.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/1729/Slender_substitute.html

Construction work on the new bridge began in April 2007, with the towers being built one after another so that the formwork could be reused. Work on the left bank tower has passed the deck level, and is progressing through the upper section. The steel anchorages for the cables, which will be built into the top of the towers, are being fabricated in Belgium. The new bridge is due to be finished in 2010.

Xihoumen Bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xihoumen_Bridge

The Xihoumen Bridge is a suspension bridge built on the Zhoushan Archipelago, the largest offshore island group in China. The main span was completed in December 2007. [1] The entire bridge, along with Jintang Bridge, was opened to traffic on a test basis on 25 December 2009. [2] It is the second-longest suspension bridge ranked by the length of the center span. The opening date was put off because of a ship collision on 16 November 2009 that slightly damaged the side of Jintang Bridge.

Bridge of the Horns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_of_the_Horns
The Bridge of the Horns is a proposed construction project to build a bridge between the coasts of Djibouti and Yemen across the Bab-el-Mandeb, the strait between the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. It will be constructed by Noor City Development Corporation, and the notice-to-proceed was issued by Middle East Development LLC, which is headed by Tarek bin Laden, a half brother of Osama bin Laden.

2009
Planned start[3]
July - Construction begun [4]
2009 - December
Yemen-Djibouti bridge gets go-ahead [5]
2020
Planned end of construction [6]

Notice-to-Proceed Launches Ambitious Red Sea Crossing
http://enr.construction.com/news/intl/archives/070501.asp

The Third Bosphorus Bridge is a planned suspension bridge located at the northern end of the Bosphorus, north of the other two bridges, in Istanbul, Turkey. The bridge will be located between Tarabya (on the European side) and Beykoz (on the Asian side).

Beginning date of construction 2010

Turkey to issue tender notice for 3rd bridge on Bosphorus
Turkish government plans to issue a tender notice in September for construction of the third bridge over Istanbul Strait, Turkish transportation minister said.
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=37324

Japan to Invest in Nuclear Energy, 3rd Bosphorus Bridge
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=37324

Researching for completion dates....
N.Korea, China deal to build river bridge
Friday February 26, 2:40 PM
http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/100226/1/4svtw.html

North Korea said Friday it had signed a deal with China to build a bridge over their border on the Yalu River, a project which was part of a major economic package announced by Beijing.

its a bridge explosion!!