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The Grasshopper Bridge

 Completion Date: 1997
Artist: Ed Carpenter
Location: 7th Avenue and Coral Gables

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The artist worked with engineer Jerry Cannon to design a pedestrian bridge in the form of two grasshoppers. The legs of the grasshoppers serve as structural supports, and animal and insect images are sandblasted and stained onto the concrete deck walkway.

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