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Cittadella Bridge in Alessandria
Italian Public Infrastructure Development over Tanaro River – design by Richard Meier & Partners Architects
26 Sep 2017
Cittadella Bridge
Architects: Richard Meier & Partners
Location: Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy – near Genoa
Cittadella Bridge

Richard Meier & Partners has completed its first pedestrian and vehicular bridge. With a surface area of approximately 4,150 meters and a length of 185 meters, the new Cittadella Bridge is a precast-concrete and painted-steel modern structure designed to connect the city of Alessandria, Italy with the 18th-century citadel across the Tanaro River in northwestern Italy.
During the flooding of Alessandria in 1994, not only did the water level reach the roadway, but also the piers of the Napoleonic Cittadella Bridge caught much of the debris in the river, effectively acting as a dam. The new design, a single span raised above the flood plain, not only solves that problem, but also reconnects the fabric of the modern city with the Cittadella, an 18th century fort and tentative UNESCO World Heritage site. By relinking Piazza Gobetti to the citadel’s remarkable structures, the project hopes to catalyze their future preservation and reuse.

Richard Meier comments: ?More than 20 years after the initial commission to design a new bridge between the city of Alessandria and the ol...