Splavarska Lent-Tabor Bridge / Burgos & Garrido arquitectos + Bernabeu Ingenieros

Maribor's coachmen were the most delighted when in 1912 the Austrians opened the now Stari Most - the ‘Old Bridge’ - over the Drava River, replacing the wooden bridge that had caused an annoying bottleneck on the busy road from Vienna to Trieste. The Stari Most, which links the districts of Lent and Tabor north and south of the river at its highest point, eventually became a symbol of the city, even though it left the banks of the Drava disconnected at the lowest point. The new Splavarska pedestrian bridge now links the two banks again in close proximity to the ‘Old Bridge’. Next to it, the new bridge is silent, underlines the presence of the metal structure of the old bridge in the city and distinguishes itself from it with a different material.