Foster and Partners’ Viaduc de Millau in southern France is the highest, longest cable-stayed bridge in the world, and it opens in December. We admire the view, talks to the engineer and meets some ...

MILLAU, France--You first see it from miles away. And after an afternoon spent driving toward it and weeks of planning a visit here, it's fair to wonder if it will live up to expectations. And there ...

Soaring across the scenic landscape, it’s indisputably one of the most beautiful bridges in the world. Often swathed by mist, so that it feels like crossing through clouds, it is so famous that it has ...

It took immense audacity to build a cable-stayed road-bridge spanning the valley of the river Tarn, near Millau, southern France. The tallest concrete pylon is 800ft on its own - higher than most ...

The Millau viaduct in the south of France is the tallest bridge structure in the world if one includes the pylons over the carriageway. With an overall height of 342 metres, the viaduct out-tops even ...

Great bridges are the truest form of public art, icons of functional elegance meant to be used as well as admired. Few contemporary structures fulfill this dual mandate as well as the Millau Viaduct, ...

A French bridge has been retaining the title of "tallest in the world" for two decades. The Millau Viaduct is the multi-span cable-stayed bridge completed in 2004 that crosses the gorge valley on the ...

This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. For my 80th birthday, my wife Lou offered to plan a trip somewhere I'd always wanted to go. I chose the ...

Millau Viaduct, a multi-span cable-stayed bridge in southern France is a perfect example of where engineering meets art. Often shrouded in fog, it is indisputably one of the most beautiful bridges in ...