A clay model of the Golden Gate Bridge, rendered in Rosé Pine red on a dark background
A site model of the Golden Gate Bridge in its neighbourhood: the landmark in Rosé Pine red among grey buildings, with its water in blue

Beside it, its neighbourhood: buildings and water from OpenStreetMap, the ground from the map's terrain tiles.

San Francisco · United States

Golden Gate Bridge

227 metres · 745 feet

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Height
227 m745 ft
Completed
1937
By
Joseph Strauss, Charles Ellis and Leon Moisseiff
Coordinates
37° 49′ 12″ N122° 28′ 42″ W · 37.8199, -122.4783

Two towers 1,280 metres apart, each two legs tied by portal beams, the main cables sagging between them and down to the anchorages, the deck hung 67 metres over the water.

Modelled from simple shapes at roughly its true size, and rendered in clay. The map draws the rest the one way it draws everything: the ground under San Francisco, as contour lines coloured by height, with its water and its names.

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