Oresund Bridge, Malmö, Sweden

The Øresund, also known as the Öresund Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the Øresund strait between Denmark and Sweden and is connected to both railroads and motorways. It is the second-longest bridge in Europe and is a single construction that connects a road and a railroad. From the Swedish coast to the man-made island of Peberholm in the center of the strait, it travels approximately 8 kilometers (5 miles). The 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) Øresund Tunnel connects Peberholm to the Danish island of Amager, completing the Øresund Link.As a component of the Øresund Link, the bridge links the Scandinavian Peninsula's road and rail systems with those of Central and Western Europe. The Link serves as the backbone of Internet data transfer between Sweden and central Europe thanks to a data cable.[6] The Øresund Line passes by train, and the international European route E20 crosses by road. Central and Western Europe are now connected to Sweden by road and train thanks to the Great Belt Fixed Link (1988–1998), which connected Funen to Zealand and, from there, to the Jutland Peninsula, and the Øresund Link.The bridge was designed by Niels Gimsing and Georg Rotne, as well as Jørgen Nissen and Klaus Falbe Hansen from Ove Arup & Partners.

The rationale behind the extra cost and difficulty of excavating a tunnel for a portion of the bridge instead of raising that portion was to prevent air traffic from the nearby Copenhagen Airport, to give ships a clear path in both good and bad weather, and to keep ice floes from obstructing the strait. On July 1, 2000, the bridge opened to traffic after construction started in 1995. The IABSE Outstanding Structure Award was given to the bridge in 2002.