The Independent - London, February 21st, 2000
BLACK DOG Hill, an otherwise unremarkable dell through which the A4 dips and rises languidly between Chippenham and Calne, has become a marvellous niche in the Wiltshire countryside where a cat's-cradle of geometric daring has produced a bridge that has pushed the boundaries of what can be done with wood to the absolute limit.
It was designed by an excitable41-year-old who dropped out of school, did a bog-standard engineering apprenticeship, got a place at Salford University, went on to become a director of one of the country's big-name design engineers - and then downsized to create a small,...
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