Architect:
SuunnitteluKORTES Engineers
Esko Järvenpää, Olavi Kummala

The Saame Bridge project was implemented in cooperation with the road departments of Finland and Norway. The silver colour symbolizes the salmon in the river Tenojoki. The anchor box of cables on the upper end of the pylons resembles a salmon tail. Ice cones designed to decrease the load of ice floes were planned for the lower end of the bridge piers. The deck spans at the Norwegian end of the bridge were determined by the size of the largest ice floes. The total length of the bridge is 316.5 metres. There are rest areas around the pylons on the bridge deck designed for the viewing of salmon fishing.

The bridge piers are slender, slightly cone-shaped steel pipes filled with concrete and dimensioned as a composite construction.