Model with deformation visualized in RSTAB (Screenshot: Dlubal) Interior view of bridge (Photos: Gartner Steel and Glass GmbH) Shuter Street Bridge in Toronto, Canada Since March 2011 a glass pedestrian bridge with a length of 30 m con- nects the St. Michael hospital with the new research center Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute. The supporting structure consists of several oval steel rings which are twisted together. The bridge with a section height of 4.60 m and a width of 3.80 m was designed by Diamond and Schmitt Architects Inc. from Toronto. As peo- ple in Toronto are mainly using the PATH system, an underground system of pedestrian paths, extending over a length of 28 km, the town could be persuaded to grant the permit only by architectural originality. Lightness of

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