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Published in TZ Latest News 10 July, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff

How architects built those wildly popular floating piers in Italy

The Floating Piers is the latest and last work of artist duo Christo and Jean-Claude. The floating dock extends over the water of Italy’s Lake Iseo. Here is how they did it.  The work consists of a three-kilometer walkway wrapped in 100,000 square meters of yellow cloth, which is supported by a floating dock system composed of 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes.

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