China's 900-year-old wood arch bridge known as the Wan'an bridge built in the Song Dynasty (960-1127) in Pingnan county, East China's Fujian Province, has been marred by fire on Saturday night ...

Kashkan Bridge is 300 meters long, and it originally had 11 columns and 12 arches, some parts of which are ruined or wiped away. Its height varies between 10 to 26 meters. An arch bridge carries loads ...

whose stone arch bridge at Mercers Pond Brook was not only a sturdy improvement over the rickety wood structure it replaced, but it was also beautiful. More than a century later, it’s hard to ...

Dimick said the bridge was constructed in the “earth-filled arch” style, meaning the structure’s concrete exterior acts as a shell holding a mass of loose material like dirt and compacted ...