FLOAT, an office building designed by architect Renzo Piano, was built at the southern end of Dusseldorf’s so-called “Medienhafen” (media harbour) in Germany. This building has now been connected to the “Capricorn” building across the street by a spectacular steel-and-glass pedestrian bridge designed by Gatermann + Schossig Architects.
The impressive pedestrian bridge looks like a glass diamond – the unusual shape is created by the polygonal arrangement of trapezoidal and triangular insulating glass units and was realized by façades specialist seele.
Watch the construction video below:
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Video courtesy of seele