Pedestrian Bridge at West India Dock, London
Unlike Canary Wharf, only a stone's throw away, the west side of West India Dock has remained undeveloped up to now. The floating pedestrian bridge designed to link the two districts is a formally independent structure based on the pontoon principle. The 94-metre wide dock is bridged by a series of elements with a maximum span of 15 meters. The entire structure was prefabricated at works, assembled and towed in two parts to its final location. To prevent the bridge drifting out of position, the pairs of pontoons are fixed to tubular steel piles rammed into the bed to the dock.
