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The bridge was designed by Israeli architect Haim Dotan. [2] To build the bridge, engineers erected four support pillars on the edges of the walls of the canyon. The bridge is made of a metal frame with more than 120 glass panels. Each of these panels is three-layered and is a 5.1-centimetre-thick (2 in) slab of tempered glass.
The structure is composed of three separate glass elevators, each of which can carry up to 50 people at a time. [7] In August 2016, Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon opened the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge, the longest (430 m (1,410 ft)) and highest (300 m (980 ft)) pedestrian glass bridge in the world. [8]
China recently built a truly daring glass-bottomed bridge to carry visitors of Zhangjiajie from one mountain peak to another, and it is readying to build additional pedestrian passageways also ...
Map including Zhangjiajie (labeled as TA-YUNG (YUNG-TING) 大庸) (AMS, 1953) The city itself was previously named Dayong (大庸) and has a recorded history dating back to 221 BC. [4] People lived here along both banks of the Lishui River (the mother river in Zhangjiajie), now within the boundaries of Zhangjiajie City, very early during the ...
The Sidu River Bridge in China is one of the world's highest bridges, soaring at a height of about 1,627 feet above the Sidu River Gorge. Completed in 2009, it was once the world's highest bridge ...
China's first U-shaped glass bridge hangs more than 3,500 feet above the valley at Yuntai Mountain and it's quite an attraction. But on Monday tourists were nothing short of terrified after a ...
The highest cantilevered skybridge between separate buildings in the world is in the Raffles City Chongqing skyscrapers complex in Chongqing, China. The world's longest pedestrian hanging skywalk, at 430 meters, is the Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge, which sits between mountain peaks in China.
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