Mohembo Bridge: The making of an icon

Behind every architectural masterpiece, there is an ambitious visionary with an unconventional taste for finer things. This is the dreamer who ignites and inspires the designer to apply his/her mind to produce great work of art. This dreamer has the capability to box and restrict the designer with the brief or just let him/her free to wander into the design wilderness. The design brief for the Mohembo Bridge was such kind that let the designer adventurously ride free.

Sometime in December 2004 legendary bridge engineer, Kobamelo Kgoboko received a call from the Roads Department with a request to do a quick feasibility study for a bridge at Mohembo over the Okavango River. Initially, the man thought government wanted just a modest bridge as the norm but he soon discovered that the brief wanted anything but ordinary.