ARCVS has revealed visuals of a two-storey bridge in Novi Sad, Serbia, which will span the River Danube and include a hotel and office building.
Named the Elbow Shadow, the 200-metre-long structure is designed by ARCVS as a multifunctional gateway for pedestrians and cyclists between the city's late-17th-century Petrovaradin Fortress and its port.
It will host a walkway on its lower level and a private hotel and offices above, all enclosed within a chunky bracket-shaped Corten steel structure that nods to the aesthetic of the port's old industrial buildings.

Serbian studio ARCVS' proposal is the winning design of an open call for a pedestrian and cycle bridge over the Danube.
The competition called for a design to sit alongside a hotel and office building on a 4,000-square-metre site on the left river bank. However, ARCVS challenged the brief by incorporating the hotel and offices within the bridge itself, so the banks could be preserved and adapted for flood defence. To achieve this, Elbow Shadow will have a 10-metre-high structure and width of 12 metres, catering for a second storey.

"The main idea behind the competition is the conclusion that the pedestrian and cyclist bridge will significantly improve the development of the left river bank," explained principal architect Branislav Redzic.

"However the plateau at the end of embankment is too precious in our opinion to be used as a building area," he told Dezeen.
"The steel lattice we have opte...