Chenab bridge in Jammu & Kashmir, highest arch-railway bridge, designed by G. Madhavi Lata for stability in harsh conditions.

MANY listeners wrote in to point out that the Arch is not a parabola, as we said on air. It's a catenary curve. Stanford math professor Keith Devlin explains the difference. It's time for your ...

And she drew this gleaming — it looks like stainless steel, it's hard to see exactly what it is, maybe aluminum — but it's a shining parabolic arch parallel to the Mississippi River.

It doesn’t. But there is a structural rationale for the building’s most distinctive feature: the tall parabolic arch at its base, which is echoed (without structural rationale) by a shallower ...

10 Design and Buro Happold collaborated on the Infinity Loop Bridge, whose double parabolic arches will welcome visitors to a new business district in Zhuhai. The Pearl River Delta is one of the ...

These days, the complex looks more like a throwback than a trend setter. The soaring parabolic arch. The stylized script. The gigantic parking lot. Nearly 860 feet of window-shopping pleasure.

The bridge, which features a parabolic arch with both ends slanting south and north at an angle of over 30 degrees, presents an S-shaped design across the creek. A stone tablet near the bridge ...