It is not known for certain how much money designers and architects spent on the construction of the Kerch Bridge. However, this bridge is worthy to go down in history - we include it in our TOP-5 most expensive buildings of our time. Who will keep him company?
Verrazano-Narrows
$ 2.5 billion was the cost of building a road suspension bridge at Verrazano-Narrows, which connected two well-known neighborhoods in New York. The valley of the structure is 4.18 km. Opened in November 1964, it consists of several levels and weighs 1.27 million tons. The project of engineer Otmar Amman got its name from a navigator from Florence, who docked in the harbor, in which New York later appeared.
Great Belt Bridge
Spent $ 3.14 billion - and Denmark became the owner of the Great Belt in the strait of the same name. Its length is 18 km. He made it possible to connect two islands - Funa and Zeeland. The discovery took place in the late 90s. The two parts of the strategically important facility are connected to each other on the island of Sproge. One of the parts is a road-railroad, the second is a suspended structure that turns into an underwater railway tunnel, there are only 4 lanes of the motorway and 2 tracks of the railway. Thanks to the possibilities of modern transport, crossing such a distance takes only 2.5 minutes.
Kerch bridge
$ 3.75 billion - the most expensive in Europe and the third most expensive in the world. According to the designers' statements, the 19 km long structure will last more than a century. Height - 80 m, there is a road and a railway. The opening of the facility was carried out in two stages:
- The first cars drove through the automotive section in 2018
- The railway section has been opened since 2020.
Bay bridge
Americans needed $ 6.4 billion to build a bridge connecting San Francisco and Oakland. This is a young architectural masterpiece that was released in the fall of 2013. The Bay Bridge replaced a span destroyed by the 1989 earthquake. Multi-lane - 10 auto-lanes, capable of withstanding a load of 250 thousand vehicles per day.
Qingdao bridge
The construction of the most expensive bridge in the world, built by the Chinese from 2007 to 2011 in the Jiaozhou Bay, cost $ 8.8 billion. A shocking length of 42.5 km! The construction was sponsored and contracted by the state-owned Shandong High-Speed Group Corp. The Qingdao Bridge connected the city of Qingdao and Huangdao.
