Simone Veil bridge inaugurated on July 6th 2024 in Bordeaux

What a thrill!

Revisiting this project, its beginnings, with an intuition based on such a simple idea that I found on an FAX to my OMA team in 2012, and seeing this simplicity built 12 years later!

To hear Simone Veil's grandson, Aurélien Veil.

From this sketch to reality. This is a new kind of bridge to live.

Thank you to Alain Juppé, Vincent Feltesse, the CUB, the towns of Floirac, Bègles and Bordeaux Métropole for the confidence you have shown in us since that jury day in 2013!

Well done to the whole team.

540 metres long, 44 metres wide, 5860 tonnes, or 75% of the weight of the Eiffel Tower:

A great social, happy, capable, and urban carpet.

It was a source of pride last night to see this bridge being opened up to new horizons and new uses.

“The design is kept to the simplest expression, the least technical, the least lyrical, in fact an almost primitive structural solution. The bridge is conceived not to be an event in the city but actually a place to promote the events in the city. From an overdose of formal gesticulation, I wanted to propose a robust “plateau” that would last and contribute to unify the right and left river banks. ” Clément Blanchet