世界最长和最高的玻璃底板栈桥 - BBC林德塞·盖洛威（Lindsey Galloway）(2023年7月2日)
恐高症患者注意了，中国新建的栈桥可不适合你们的小心脏。
新建人行栈桥全长380米，横跨部分张家界大峡谷，其底板完全由玻璃制成。有胆量走上栈桥的游客能够俯视大峡谷，甚至能看到300米以下的谷底。栈桥预计七月完工，将在十月对外开放。
一个角度的风景（图片来源：Haim Dotan Architects）
这座栈桥并不是该地区的第一个玻璃栈道——第一个是位于天门山峭壁上的玻璃栈道——但是大峡谷栈桥将会成为世界上最长且海拔最高的玻璃栈桥。除了创造新纪录，建造这座玻璃栈桥也打算尽可能减少对周围景观的破坏。
“我的理念是自然、和谐、平衡与美丽。大自然就足够美了，”以色列特拉维夫建筑师渡堂海 (Haim Dotan)说，他设计了这座栈桥的基本概念。“张家界玻璃栈桥的设计理念是尽可能无形——成为一座消失在云中的白色大桥。”
行走于玻璃栈桥之上（图片来源：Haim Dotan Architects）
悬架仅由两根位于山谷两侧的钢梁组成，侧挂的斜拉索构成了大桥扶手，加上玻璃制成的底板，这座桥看起来弱不禁风——但事实上，它可以承受高强度的大风、地震、霜冻，一次还能负担800位游客的体重。
张家界大峡谷新栈桥一瞥（图片来源：Haim Dotan Architects）
当然了，如果仅仅是在玻璃栈桥上行走还算不上刺激的话，大桥也计划设立蹦极项目，这将彻底击败如今的纪录保持者，223米的澳门观光塔，成为世界上海拔最高的蹦极点。
（责编：友义）The world’s longest (and highest) glass-bottomed bridge - By Lindsey Galloway
Acrophobiacs beware… China’s newest bridge isn’t for the faint of heart.
Stretching 380m across a section of Zhangjiajie’s Grand Canyon, the new pedestrian bridge will have a completely glass floor. Visitors who dare venture forth can see the full 300m drop to the canyon’s bottom below. Construction is expected to be complete in July, and the bridge will open to visitors in October.
This isn’t the region’s first towering glass floor – a glass skywalk hugs the cliff of Tianmen Mountain – but the Grand Canyon instalment is expected to be the longest and tallest glass-bottomed bridge in the world. Outside of setting records, the glass architecture is meant to minimise any disruption to the surrounding scenery.
“I believe in nature, harmony, balance and beauty. Nature is beautiful as is,” said Haim Dotan, the Tel Aviv-based architect who designed the bridge’s concept. “The Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge was designed to be invisible as possible – a white bridge disappearing into the clouds.”
With a suspension constructed only of two side steel beams, banisters with side-hanging stay cables and a glass deck, the bridge may look minimal – but it can withstand high winds, earthquakes, frost and the weight of 800 visitors at a time.
Of course, if walking across it isn’t enough of an adventure, the bridge also has plans to offer the highest bungee jump in the world, beating out current record holder, the 233m Macau Tower bungee jump.