The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait between San Francisco and Marin County, California, carrying road, pedestrian and bicycle traffic across the entrance to San Francisco Bay. Designed under chief engineer Joseph Strauss with contributions from Leon Moisseiff, Irving Morrow and Charles Ellis, it opened on May 27, 1937, and its Art Deco influenced towers have made it one of the most recognized symbols of San Francisco and California, once described by a travel guide as possibly the most beautiful and certainly the most photographed bridge in the world. On opening it held the record as both the longest and tallest suspension bridge in the world, and it has since been named one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own accountMarin County, United States 2 Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account Height (m)Sourced to the subject's own account Classification
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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean in California, United States. The structure links San Francisco-the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula-to Marin County, carrying both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait.
- Uses Element: Steel, Infobox material field: Steel
In Style: Art Deco, Design
Irving Morrow, a relatively unknown residential architect, designed the overall shape of the bridge towers, the lighting scheme, and Art Deco elements, such as the tower decorations, streetlights, railing, and walkways.
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Wikimedia FoundationWikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1937)
Wikidata item Q44440, property P1619: 1937
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Wikidata item Q44440, instance of (P31): suspension bridge
Wikidata height (P2048) statement: 227.38
Wikidata item Q44440, property P2048 (height): 227.38 m (converted to metres, preferred/normal rank, non-deprecated)
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Marin County, United States
Wikidata item Q44440, property P131/P17 (location): Marin County, United States
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