Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge
Coordinates: 15 ° 49 ′ 25 ″ S , 47 ° 49 ′ 46 ″ W.
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| use | Motor vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians | |
| Crossing of | Paranoá lake | |
| place | Brasília | |
| construction | asymmetrical arch bridge with suspended deck girder | |
| overall length | 1.2 kilometers | |
| width | 24 meters | |
| Longest span | 300 meters | |
| height | 18 meters (maximum) | |
| building-costs | 160 million reals | |
| start of building | 2000 | |
| opening | December 15, 2002 | |
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The Juscelino-Kubitschek Bridge , also known as President JK Bridge or JK Bridge (Portuguese: Ponte JK ), is a bridge over Lake Paranoá in the center of the Brazilian capital, Brasília . It connects the southern part of Lago Sul , São Sebastião and Paranoá with the Plano Piloto and the central Eixo Monumental .
The bridge is named after the former Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira , who built Brasília as the capital in the 1950s. In December 1998, the design by the architect Alexandre Chan won a national competition . The technical execution was carried out by Mário Vila Verde . The bridge received the 2003 award for the best steel structure from ABCEM, the Brazilian Association of Steel Constructors. The architect Chan received the Gustav Lindenthal Medal from the International Bridge Conference for the building in the same year . The three asymmetrical steel arches, offset from one another, rise 61 meters above the lake at their apex. The roadway is suspended from them by means of suspension cables.
The bridge crosses a three-lane expressway in both directions and has a pedestrian and bicycle lane at the edge. It has field widths of 300 meters, 300 meters and 250 meters.
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- ↑ Melhores Obras com Aço: Ponte Juscelino Kubistchek em Brasília, DF ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Winner of the Lindenthal Medal ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge. In: Structurae
- ↑ Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (pdf; 61 kB) - project description on ppaarquitetura.com
