6,000-year-old Engineering Techniques Shape 30-ft All-Glass Bridge
Sector: Education • Location: Corning, New York, United States
Source: Interesting Engineering
Architect and structural engineer Masoud Akbarzadeh designed and constructed a 30-foot-long bridge made entirely of interlocking 16-millimeter hollow glass pieces. The bridge, named 'Glass Bridge: The Penn Monument for Hope,' uses ancient funicular design principles to handle forces primarily through compression. The project took six years of planning and was built with extreme precision, requirin
- Status
- Closed
- Sector
- Education, Bridge
- Location
- Corning, New York, United States of America
- Updated
- 22 Jul 2026
- Source
- Interesting Engineering
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Description | Architect and structural engineer Masoud Akbarzadeh designed and constructed a 30-foot-long bridge made entirely of interlocking 16-millimeter hollow glass pieces. The bridge, named 'Glass Bridge: The Penn Monument for Hope,' uses ancient funicular design principles to handle forces primarily through compression. The project took six years of planning and was built with extreme precision, requiring a tolerance of only 0.1 millimeters. The bridge is currently exhibited at the Corning Museum of Glass and has been documented in the journal Engineering Structures. |
Original sector | Transportation |
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Country | United States of America (USA) |
State | New York |
City | Corning |
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Record type | Project |
Sector | Education, Bridge |
Article published date | 2025-06-18 |
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