Vertigo

So Mark conceded that one of the posts that he was ‘going to do’ whilst ‘filling in’ for me when I was on holiday was on the Millau Viaduct in France. I was thinking of doing a post on it at some point anyway as it is a very cool looking bridge.

It is yet another structure designed by good old Norman Foster, who if you don’t know is responsible for the glass roof over the British Museum, the erotic gherkin in London (real name the Swiss Re Tower) and the 2005 RIBA Sterling Prize nominee, the MacLaren Technology Centre in Germany amoungst many other things.

The Millau Viaduct is really pretty high up, aside from being rather smart looking. You could fit One Canada Square (known to the proles as Canary Wharf) underneath it and that is a big building is big (trust me, I’ve been up it).

However if you want a truly vertigo inducing structure, how about the proposed Grand Canyon Skywalk, a U-shaped bridge suspended 1200 metres above the floor of the Grand Canyon… with a glass floor.