架构师提供的文本描述。阿联酋有一个高度流动的社会，需要一条环绕海湾南岸的新路线，将三个阿联酋连接起来。1967年建造了一座钢拱桥，将初出茅庐的阿布扎比岛与大陆连接起来，接着是七十年代建造的第二座桥，连接阿布扎比岛南侧的下游。靠近第一座桥的新(第三)网关交叉口的位置对公路系统的发展和完成至关重要。

Text description provided by the architects. The UAE has a highly mobile society that requires a new route around the Gulf south shore, connecting the three Emirates together. In 1967 a steel arch bridge was built to connect the fledgling city of Abu Dhabi island to the mainland, followed by a second bridge built in the seventies, connecting downstream at the south side of Abu Dhabi Island. The location of the new (third) Gateway Crossing, close to the first bridge, is critical in the development and completion of the highway system.

 © Christian Richters

克里斯蒂安·里氏

在开放的环境下构思，这座桥本身就有可能成为一个目的地，并成为阿布扎比未来城市发展的潜在催化剂。

Conceived in an open setting, the bridge has the prospect of becoming a destination in itself and potential catalyst in the future urban growth of Abu Dhabi.

 drawing 02

drawing 02

聚集在一岸的一组或多条构筑物被提升并“推进”于河道的长度。正弦波形提供跨通道的结构轮廓形状。

A collection, or strands of structures, gathered on one shore, are lifted and ‘propelled’ over the length of the channel. A sinusoidal waveform provides the structural silhouette shape across the channel.

 © Christian Richters

克里斯蒂安·里氏

大陆是从地面和引路上出现的桥梁结构的发射台。道路甲板在脊柱结构的两侧都有悬臂。钢拱门从大体积混凝土桥墩上升和弹簧不对称，长度，之间的道路甲板标志着大陆和通航渠道。脊柱沿着中央的空隙位置从一岸裂开和倾斜，在桥面下面向桥的另一端的公路通道的外面发散。

The mainland is the launch pad for the bridge structure emerging from the ground and approach road. The Road decks are cantilevered on each side of the spine structure. Steel arches rise and spring from mass concrete piers asymmetrically, in length, between the road decks to mark the mainland and the navigation channels. The spine splits and splays from one shore along the central void position, diverging under the road decks to the outside of the roadways at the other end of the bridge.

 © Christian Richters

克里斯蒂安·里氏

主桥拱桥结构高出水位60m，路面高出平均水位20米。

The main bridge arch structure rises to a height of 60 m above water level with the road crowning to a height of 20 metres above mean water level.