• PROJECT
    Amédée Saint-Germain Armagnac Bridge
  • LOCATION
    Bordeaux
  • CLIENT
    Bordeaux Euratlantique
  • PROJECT MANAGEMENT
    Marc Mimram Architecture et Ingénierie, Artelia
  • DATES
    2013 – 2022
  • SURFACE
    Franchissement des voies de 196 m, viaduc de 150 m, rampe côté Amédée de 195 m, rampe côté Armagnac de 185 m, travée de 66 m
  • COST
    34 M€
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Although Bordeaux Saint Jean station, as well as the entire sector lying south of the station and alongside the tracks, has for a long time remained on the edge of the city, it has recently been seen as a new hub providing significant opportunities for property development. The proposed bridges are an essential lever for urban regeneration and will help launch a new urban dynamic that allows people to live close to urban infrastructures and brings the two sides of the river closer together.

Here, the city is generous because it resolves its own fragmentation, offering calm public spaces and providing connections while creating new locales. We are eager to free up the ground under the bridges and make their undersides and supports as attractive as possible; their upper surface will be treated as a public space, a balcony overlooking a new urban landscape. The sequences of views as you cross the bridge enhances the project, both interacting with it and enriching it. The bridge’s two arches, complemented by pierced stiffened beams, create a unique and meaningful silhouette signifying the transition from one riverbank to the other and forming a landmark for the entire district—both a sign of identification and an acknowledgment of this new polarity.