Blue Bridge (Oregon)
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The Blue Bridge is a curved pedestrian and bicycle bridge connecting the north and south halves of the Reed College campus. It is made of concrete and crosses the Reed College Canyon, sloping downwards from south to north; because of the unusual shape of the bridge, it received an award for architectural concrete design upon its completion. The name refers to the blue lights which illuminate it at night. The Blue Bridge did not always have blue lights. Students supposedly added blue filters to the lights during Renn Fayre one year and liked it so much that they left them in. In 2004, students changed the blue filters to green for Renn Fayre. They were changed back shortly thereafter.
Before the Blue Bridge was built in 1992, access to the Cross Canyon dormitories was via the first cross canyon bridge. The first cross canyon bridge was constructed in 1959. The unusual design of this bridge, the only one of its kind in the world, was the result of more than a year’s research by the architect and a plywood company. The bridge was supported by two cantilevers of pre-stressed plywood and covered with a thin canvas membrane.
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