Brooklyn Bridge by René Roos

About "Brooklyn Bridge"

by René Roos

About the artwork

Built in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge is a suspension bridge with elements of a cable-stayed bridge in New York in the United States. It crosses the East River and connects Brooklyn to Lower Manhattan, just like the Manhattan Bridge. The architects were John Roebling and his son Washington Roebling. Washington's wife, Emily Warren Roebling, took the actual charge of completing the bridge when her husband, a victim of caisson disease, was no longer able to do so.

The bridge is 1825 feet long, and the largest span is 486 feet. This made the bridge the longest span in the world until the construction of the Williamsburg Bridge in 1903. In 2008, it was the 64th largest suspension bridge in the world in terms of span.
The completion of the bridge and its record length created a new conception of New York's urban scale. In the bridge, the contrast between the old materials and the new materials of the new era, the massive supports and the "fine" cabling that carries the road surface, becomes clear.
The Empire State Building is a 381-meter-high skyscraper in New York. In 2016, it was the third tallest building in the city and ranked fifth on the list of tallest buildings in the United States. The name of the building, which stands at the intersection of West 34th Street and Fifth Avenue, comes from New York State's nickname: The Empire State. The building was the tallest in the world from 1931 until the construction of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in 1971.