有人居住的桥梁总是能抓住大众的想象力。《伦敦桥倒了》之所以能成为世界上最著名的童谣，并不是因为在今天的桥面上有一个完全被遗忘的高速公路天桥，而是因为横跨泰晤士河长达六个多世纪的中世纪小镇，它虚幻而梦幻。同样，从维奇奥桥到里亚托桥再到塔桥，世界上一些最著名的桥梁既提供住宿又提供交通。

And so is the case with the latest project from Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the practice’s first in Norway. Located in Kistefos Sculpture Park in Jevnaker, about 40 miles north-east of Oslo, the Twist is a new inhabited bridge that provides a new 1,000sq m art gallery for Europe’s largest sculpture park. Officially opened by the Norwegian queen last week, the glass- and aluminium-clad bridge spans the winding Randselva river and, like the sculpture park itself, is set in acres of picturesque riverside woodland. Nestling among the trees nearby stands the converted pump mill building of 1889 which previously housed Kistefos’ interior collection.

An art gallery spanning a river might seem like a rather romantic and whimsical notion but in architectural and engineering terms it is not in and of itself particularly ground breaking. From a strictly functional perspective, for much of its meandering extent Florence’s iconic Vasari Corridor has been doing what the Twist now does for 444 years – or at least it will when it reopens to the public in 2021.

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