Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco

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Golden Gate Bridge

Golden Gate Strait, San Francisco Bay
San Francisco CA United States
http://www.goldengatebridge.org

Status:	built
Construction Dates
Began	1933
Finished	1937

Building Uses

- transportation

- monument

Structural Types

- bridge

Heights	Value	Source / Comments

Roof	746 ft	Unconfirmed


Above water in center	220 ft	Unconfirmed


Above water near towers	210 ft	Unconfirmed

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Description
Architect: Irving Foster Morrow

• Chief engineer: Joseph Baermann Strauss
• Consulting engineers: Othmar Herrmann Ammann, Charles Derleth jr., Leon Solomon Moisseiff
• Field engineer: Russel G. Cone
• Total Length: 2737.4 m
• Spans lenghts: 343+1280+343 m
• World's tallest bridge from 1934 till first half of 1990s when it was overtaken by Akashi Kaikyo bridge

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