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Mon 04 Apr 2009Judges see merits of 'invisible' bridge over Rhine
DUBLIN’S Heneghan Peng Architects has won a competition to build a controversial bridge across the UNESCO-protected Rhine Valley.
The 150m bridge, linking the towns of St Goar und Sankt Goarshausen, will be situated near one of Germany’s most hallowed sites: the “Loreley” rock on the eastern bank of the river named after the Rhine Maiden who, legend has it, lured sailors here to their doom.
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