Living on the Edge

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I’ve seen a lot of cool ideas when it comes to architecture. A lot of them come from renovating old structures. For example, turning old department stores and old churches into a house is pretty cool. It creates an interesting space the seems fresh and accommodating. However, I’ve never seen this before: turning a bridge into a guest house.

This 2004 project by dan hisel design was for a client who just so happens to own an old railroad bridge. I’ve got to credit the story to John at archidose.blogspot.com who put together an amazing story about habitable bridges.

Unfortunately the bridge guest house was never built, but I now find myself itching to go buy a bridge. To the owners: Is yours for sale?

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My name is Kelvin Findlay. I fell in love with architecture as I worked in construction several years ago. The power of making something so meaningful to the future residents was humbling and exciting. I now am a student of Design, Sales, and Marketing trying to bring Sustainable and Regenerative Design to the whole world. I work at www.theplancollection.com where I blog about green design whenever I can (though most of my writings are website specific like plan descriptions and the like).