The New Danube Bridge is unveiled – here is how it will look like

Index.hu announces the final results of the international architectural design competition launched in Hungary to select the best plan for a new bridge constructed over the Danube that fits into the image of Budapest and significantly reduces traffic congestion in the capital. The overall winner became the unparalleled project of the English-Dutch UNStudio and the Buro Happold Engineering consultancy who, among others, have also designed the Erasmus Bridge of Rotterdam. In the following, you can get to know more information about their project and see how the new bridge will look like in the future.

An international architectural design competition was announced in 2017 within the framework of which the Municipal Government of Budapest wished to choose the company responsible for the future construction of the New Danube Bridge in the southern part of Budapest. The need for such a bridge in the southern, less-developed part of the capital has been long justified and thanks to the competition, the long-cherished project can eventually come true with the assistance of the winner UNStudio and the Buro Happold Engineering consultancy.

Davood Liaghat and Kristoph Nowak, representatives of the winner Buro Happold Engeneering and the UNStudio, together with Alexandra Szalay-Bobrovniczky, Deputy Mayor, and Balázs Fürjes, Government Commissioner
MTI: Zoltán Balogh

The overall winner project involves the construction of a new 2×3-laned bridge over the Danube connecting Galvani Street and Illatos Road where a tramway also gets a place, reports Newdanubebridge.com. Furthermore, its design will make it “unique and elegant, and at the same time dynamic and powerful.”

MTI Photo: UNStudió and the Buro Happold Engineering MTI Photo: UNStudió and the Buro Happold Engineering

Besides the absolute winner, some further outstanding plans should also be mentioned. At 2nd place, there are two projects: the more conservative, two-pylon suspension bridge designed by the Lavigne & Chéron Architectes, the Bureau d’Études Greisch, the Közlekedés Consulting Engineers and the Geovil companies and the less conservative one built on large pillars over the Danube made by the Leonhardt, Andra und Partner, Zaha Hadid Architects, the WENER Consult and the Smoltzcyk & Partner consultancies.