Designs for a new pedestrian bridge in Norwich, eastern England, have been put on public display. The bridge, designed by Ramboll Whitbybird, will provide a link over the River Wensum between the north of the city and its centre. Site owner Jarrold & Sons will shortly be submitting a detailed planning application, following the grant of outline permission last year.
"The design aspiration for the Jarrold Bridge is not to radically transform its environment but to enhance it, to build upon the many positive qualities this stretch of the River Wensum has," said the design team. "Our design does not attempt to impose an 'iconic' form on its surroundings but is a bold, sensitively detailed, quietly elegant, sweeping form."
The bridge is a sculptural form tracing a curved path over the water. To the south, it springs from the highest point of land, and then rises gently, first following the riverbank, and then sweeping past existing trees as it turns northwards in a curved path, to land on the raised podium of a new development.
