{"id":1720,"date":"2025-10-23T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:19:04","slug":"zaha-hadid-architects-danjiang-bridge-nears-completion-ahead-of-2026-opening-in-taipei-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/zaha-hadid-architects-danjiang-bridge-nears-completion-ahead-of-2026-opening-in-taipei-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Zaha Hadid Architects\u2019 Danjiang Bridge Nears Completion Ahead of 2026 Opening in Taipei, Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1035330\/zaha-hadid-architects-danjiang-bridge-nears-completion-ahead-of-2026-opening-in-taipei-taiwan\/68f92bdc96624135afe7dd06-zaha-hadid-architects-danjiang-bridge-nears-completion-ahead-of-2026-opening-in-taipei-taiwan-photo\" rel=\"attachment\" title=\"featured_image\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Danjiang Bridge in Taiwan by Zaha Hadid Architects. Construction photography. Image \u00a9 Paddy Chao\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Danjiang Bridge in Taiwan by Zaha Hadid Architects. Construction photography. Image \u00a9 Paddy Chao\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/danjiang-bridge_12.jpg\"><br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  <small>Danjiang Bridge in Taiwan by Zaha Hadid Architects. Construction photography. Image \u00a9 Paddy Chao<\/small><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/office\/zaha-hadid-architects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zaha Hadid Architects<\/a> was announced as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/771761\/zaha-hadid-architects-win-danjiang-bridge-competition-in-taiwan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the winner of the Danjiang Bridge International Competition in 2015<\/a>. At the time, the design proposal sought to minimize the bridge&#8217;s visual impact by employing a single concrete structural mast to support a 920-meter-long cable-stayed span. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/913571\/construction-begins-on-zaha-hadid-architects-record-breaking-danjiang-bridge-in-taipei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Construction began in 2019 on what would become the world&#8217;s longest single-mast, asymmetric cable-stayed bridge<\/a>. In October 2025, the final segment of the bridge&#8217;s steel decking was installed, connecting the east and west banks of the Tamsui <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/river\">River<\/a> estuary in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/search\/projects\/country\/taiwan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taiwan<\/a> for the first time and confirming its opening date for May 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1035330\/zaha-hadid-architects-danjiang-bridge-nears-completion-ahead-of-2026-opening-in-taipei-taiwan\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danjiang Bridge in Taiwan by Zaha Hadid Architects. Construction photography. Image \u00a9 Paddy Chao Zaha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1723,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}