Berlin is short of foot­bridges and yet has so many rivers and other in­ter­est­ing sites that are cry­ing out for a bridge. Work­ing with the Berlin Bridge De­part­ment of the In­sti­tute of Con­cep­tual and Struc­tural De­sign at the TU Berlin, we have iden­ti­fied six cen­tral lo­ca­tions that are typ­i­cal of Berlin, and where foot­bridges are needed. So be­gan the “World’s Foot­bridges for Berlin” pro­ject. Par­tic­i­pants from all over the world sub­mit­ted many cu­ri­ous, in­tel­li­gent, vi­sion­ary foot­bridge de­signs. The pre­cious col­lec­tion of 73 se­lected bridge de­signs are mapped in the mi­crosite “Bridge Finder”, a dig­i­tal com­pass, to ex­plore the con­text of the pro­ject and the city. The “Bridge Finder” first shows the near­est lo­ca­tion and then all other lo­ca­tions with in­for­ma­tion on walk­ing dis­tances. It in­forms the user of the re­spec­tive bridge de­sign and in­vites the user to go for a stroll.

Moni­teurs de­signed the first iBook of the en­gi­neer­ing con­sul­tants schlaich berg­er­mann part­ner with the is­sue “move­able struc­tures”. The dig­i­tal medium pre­sents highly com­plex pro­jects, like the three-span fold­ing bridge Kieler Hörn or the BC Place Sta­dium in Van­cou­ver, in a vi­talised way with films, slideshows, im­ages, text and mu­sic. The styl­ish book in­cludes ten in­for­mal in­ter­views with the as­so­ci­ates, who talk about the for­ward-look­ing tech­nol­ogy and in­ven­tive ge­nius be­hind the pro­jects.

The de­sign of the book in many lay­ers, goes hand in hand with the con­tent, which de­scribes the many dif­fer­ent lay­ers with which the en­gi­neers schlaich berg­er­mann part­ner deal and in which they work.

How do the en­gi­neers al­ways man­age to de­liver in­no­v­a­tive and first-class work? A look be­hind the scenes de­scribes this. In ad­di­tion to ex­cit­ing texts and pro­ject de­scrip­tions, the book also pro­vides space for beau­ti­ful, quiet photo se­ries. What it means when en­gi­neers work to­gether with artists is shown in the layer art, for ex­am­ple. Nu­mer­ous works are vividly ex­plored in depth about Aug­mented Re­al­ity.