Urban Ribbon

Photographer

Zile Zhou

Category

Architecture Photography - Bridges

Company

Zile Zhou

Submission Group

Professional

Year

2026

Country / Region:

China

Urban Ribbon presents the Nanpu Bridge, completed in 1991 as Shanghai’s vital first cross-river link. More than concrete and steel, it is a luminous ribbon that binds the city’s halves, transforming a two-hour ferry into a seven-minute flow. By night, its spirals and towers dissolve into pure light and motion—a gift of modernity, continuously unwinding along the Huangpu River like a radiant, resting loong.