Stolmabrua / Stolmen Bridge

While painting in Austevoll at the West Coast of Norway, I got fascinated by this construction. At the time it was the bridge with the longest span in the world, built in the “straight ahead”- method, 202 meters between the pillars if I remember correctly. The method implies that you fill up the hollow land-based part of the bridge with more and more ballast as you build out over the water. Goes to prove that I’m not I’m not only obsessed with nostalgia, doesn’t it?