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SkyDance Bridge

By Asad Syrkett
October 16, 2012

20 Fenchurch Street
Photo © Rob Ferguson
The newly finished SkyDance pedestrian bridge, by OKC-based design group S-X-L, takes its form from the colorful state bird, the scissor-tailed flycatcher. The team won a competition to create the 197-foot-tall, locally-fabricated-steel structure. Architect Hans Butzer, a member of the S-X-L team, hopes the bridge will become a symbol of an enlivened Oklahoma City.

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