Carone

Cameron Carone

media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=juscelino+kubitschek+bridge&hl=en&cd=1&ei=KvmwS_eSNYrqNanLtLgP&sll=-17.664977,-47.458834&sspn=4.421847,6.683894&ie=UTF8&view=map&cid=3261548871501036575&ved=0CBoQpQY&hq=juscelino+kubitschek+bridge&hnear=&ll=-15.822541,-47.830266&spn=0.006295,0.006295&output=embed" width="425" height="350" align="right" media type="youtube" key="5ix-VC0O65E" height="385" width="480"
 * 1) My bridge is called the Juscelino Kubitchek bridge
 * 2) This bridge started building in 2000 and ended in 2002. This bridge is over Lake Paranoá in Brasilia, Brazil
 * 3) The purpose of this bridge was so that people and crops would have an easier time getting to the other side of Lake Paranoá. Since it is over a lake i spans over lake Paranoá.
 * 4) This bridge was needed to mostly transport crops, and to attract tourists
 * 5) The type of bridge this is, is a cable type bridge
 * 6) It cost 56.8 million dollars and 160 million brazilian reais.
 * 7) They mostly used steel and concrete for this bridge.
 * 8) The challenges that they had faced while building was buliding an actual bridge but at the same time they had to build an art.
 * 9) It took 2 years to build this bridge.
 * 10) This bridge is 1, 200 meters long, 24 meters wide, and 60 meters high.
 * 11) Alexandre Chan (designer of bridge) created another walk way with the same design in Nagoya, Japan