Tabiat Bridge

Tabiat Bridge
Coordinates	35°45′16″N 51°25′14″E / 35.75442°N 51.4205°E / 35.75442; 51.4205
Crosses	Modares Expressway
Locale	Tehran, Iran
Official name	Pole Tabiat
Characteristics
Design	Footbridge
History
Designer	Leila Araghian
Contracted lead designer	Diba Tensile Architecture
Construction start	2010
Construction end	2014
Location

The Tabi'at Bridge (Persian: پل طبیعت, lit. 'The bridge of nature') is the largest pedestrian overpass in Tehran, Iran. The 270-metre (890 ft) bridge connects two public parks — Taleghani Park and Abo-Atash Park — by spanning Modarres Expressway, one of the main highways in northern Tehran.^[1] The word tabiat which was imported from Arabic to Persian, means "nature" in Persian, but it has several other meanings in Arabic.^[1][2]

The bridge was designed by Diba Tensile Architecture (Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi).^[1] It has won several awards, including the Popular Choice Prize for Highways & Bridges from the Architizer A+ Awards, a global architectural competition based in New York.^[3][4] The bridge also won the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture^[5] for its exemplary approach to an infrastructure project, "a breath of fresh air" according to the award jury.^[6]