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a hallway that decided gravity was a suggestion, not a rule
means An elevated walkway, often enclosed, that connects two buildings or crosses high above a street or open space.
from A transparent compound of "sky" and "walk," both rooted in Old English ("sky" came later from Old Norse "ský," meaning cloud, which gradually drifted upward to mean the whole heavens). The pairing is modern, born of 20th-century architecture once builders could reliably string corridors between high floors. The Star Wars hero Luke Skywalker borrowed the same airy logic, but the architectural "skywalk" stands on its own steel legs.
- glass floor
- Grand Canyon's hangs 4,000 feet over the river
- city veins
- Minneapolis links 80 blocks indoors against brutal winters
- wobble fear
- London's Millennium Bridge swayed so badly it closed
- name twist
- Skywalker borrowed it; the architecture came first
grand canyon skywalk — horseshoe-shaped glass bridge 4,000 feet above the colorado river, opened 2007 in arizona
chicago skywalk — network of elevated enclosed pedestrian bridges connecting 80 blocks of downtown chicago since 1962
minneapolis skyway system — 11 miles of enclosed bridges connecting 80+ buildings in downtown minneapolis, operational since 1962