After fountains, the mayor is turning his focus to city bridges.
After the railway and the Sava Bridge, the Adriatic Bridge is the next bridge in Zagreb which will get a new decorative LED lighting system, similar to the one on the two neighbouring bridges. The project has been designed by Dean Skira from Pula, known for his decorative lighting projects for the Uljanik shipyard’s cranes, the Postojna Cave in Slovenia, and also the intercontinental underwater tunnel linking Asia and Europe in Istanbul, reports Večernji List on June 23, 2018.
His project for illuminating the Adriatic Bridge will cost around 11 million kuna. “The existing public lighting system with lamps on steel pillars needs to be modernized by replacing existing energy inefficient lamps with new LED lamps on new pillars,” explains the documentation accompanying the tender which the city authorities have just published to find a company which will implement Skira’s ideas.
The decorative part of the lighting system will be installed on the public lighting pillars, but also on the bridge construction itself. “The pre-programmed controller will provide, by following an astronomical clock, the turning on the decorative lighting at dusk and turning it off at dawn. It will be possible to set the lighting to be turned off at specific times and on specific dates,” explains the tender documentation further.
The management system will enable the creation of dynamic lighting schemes and changes in the colour, suggesting that the Adriatic Bridge will look similar to the nearby railway bridge, for which Skira recently won the IES Special Citation award in New York.
The name of the company which will perform the works on both the Adriatic Bridge and the Sava Bridge, for which a separate tender was published in early June, should be known by August.
The Sava Bridge, which is a pedestrian bridge connecting the Kajzerica neighbourhood and the tram turning point on Savska Street, will also be illuminated according to Skira’s project, for three and a half million kuna. The works on it should be concluded in the autumn.
When Mayor Milan Bandić introduced the decorative lighting system on the railway bridge just over a year ago, he announced that all eight bridges in Zagreb will eventually get new lighting. Still, other bridges will have to be patient since they are in such a poor shape that their reconstruction is of a greater priority than decoration.
Translated from Večernji List (reported by Mateja Šobak).
