The paper presents the construction of a steel footbridge in the People’s Park in Lublin. The initiation and development of the architectural design of an interesting and, as it eventually turned out, aesthetically pleasing footbridge is discussed. Two teams of architects and bridge engineers worked in parallel on the design. The design process of the footbridge structure is discussed along with its trial installation and on-site construction. The span of the footbridge is short, but its structure is innovative. For this reason its numerical model was developed used as a basis for an analysis of the dynamic response of the designed structure. The basic element of the acceptance procedure was constituted by a dynamic test load and an analysis of the pedestrian footbridge user comfort. Last but not least, the final section reviews the aesthetic canons of bridges and focuses on the footbridge in question in this context. A statistical measure of the aesthetic impression induced by a visit to the footbridge was applied resulting in a predictable and obvious final aesthetical assessment. 

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