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CHINA’S HISTORIC BRIDGES: ARCHITECTURE OVER WATER Gansu Province Images © Ronald G. Knapp & Jeffrey D. Knapp Weiyuan, Gansu province is a nondescript out-of-the-way town with one of China’s truly magnificent bridges The Baling Bridge, built in 1919 as a result of some inspired civic boosterism, was modeled after a well-known bridge in the provincial capital Lanzhou called the Wo [Holding] Bridge that had been destroyed. Spanning 29.4 meters, one third greater than its Lanzhou antecedent, it has a overall length of 44.5 meters and width of 6.2 meters. Sweeping to a height of 15.4 meters above the stream, the roof of the symmetrical gallery reaches even above the surrounding treetops.

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Page 1: CHINA’S HISTORIC BRIDGES: ARCHITECTURE OVER WATER …knappr/Gansu.pdfWeiyuan, Gansu province is a nondescript out-of-the-way town with one of China’s truly magnificent bridges

CHINA’S HISTORIC BRIDGES: ARCHITECTURE OVER WATER Gansu Province

Images © Ronald G. Knapp & Jeffrey D. Knapp

Weiyuan, Gansu province is a nondescript out-of-the-way town with one of China’s truly magnificent bridges

The Baling Bridge, built in 1919 as a result of some inspired civic boosterism, was modeled after a well-known bridge in the provincial capital Lanzhou called the Wo [Holding] Bridge that had been destroyed. Spanning 29.4 meters, one third greater than its Lanzhou antecedent, it has a overall length of 44.5 meters and width of 6.2 meters.

Sweeping to a height of 15.4 meters above the stream, the roof of the symmetrical gallery reaches even above the surrounding treetops.

Page 2: CHINA’S HISTORIC BRIDGES: ARCHITECTURE OVER WATER …knappr/Gansu.pdfWeiyuan, Gansu province is a nondescript out-of-the-way town with one of China’s truly magnificent bridges

Page 3: CHINA’S HISTORIC BRIDGES: ARCHITECTURE OVER WATER …knappr/Gansu.pdfWeiyuan, Gansu province is a nondescript out-of-the-way town with one of China’s truly magnificent bridges

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