The city of Venice is set to replace the glass floor of Santiago Calatrava's Ponte della Costituzione bridge over the Grand Canal with stone, due to the high numbers of pedestrians slipping and falling.
The Spanish architect's 94-metre Ponte della Costituzione ? Constitution Bridge in English ? opened in 2008 and is made from steel and glass.
Venice's municipal authority has now decided to allocate ?500,000 to replace the bridge's tempered glass paving with trachyte stone in order to make it safer for pedestrians, as reported by the New York Times.
Francesca Zaccariotto, a councillor with responsibility for public works, told the newspaper that the action is intended to prevent "almost daily" falls.
The city of Venice will pay ?500,000 to replace the glass paving with stone "People hurt themselves, and they sue the administration," she said. "We have to intervene."
In a letter shared with Dezeen, which was sent shortly before Christmas by Calatrava's office to the mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, Calatrava's studio expressed support for the plan and offered to assist with the design.
"Given the tradition of beautiful stone patterns already present in your beautiful city (such as those on the Piazza San Marco and within the Basilica di San Marco), the idea of giving such a transformation also an artistic touch is something that we would like to propose for this transformation," the letter said.
"Mr Calatrava would be more than hap...