The Bridge of Glass is a 500-foot-long pedestrian bridge linking downtown Tacoma, Washington, to the city's waterfront, the Thea Foss Waterway. Conceived by Dale Chihuly, artist and native of Tacoma, and designed in collaboration with Arthur Andersson of Andersson Wise Architects, it is a display of color and form soaring seventy feet into the air. The Bridge of Glass, commissioned by the Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art, was gifted by the museum to the city of Tacoma. On July 6, 2002, the bridge was dedicated and opened to the public.

The bridge's 500-foot span features a Seaform Pavilion, Venetian Wall and two Crystal Towers.

The Seaform Pavilion is a ceiling made of thousands of objects from Chihuly's Seaform and Persian series. Seaforms have soft, undulating sides and rims, and feature delicate, flowing forms and colors. Persians, the exotic cousin to the Seaforms, are a rich variety of cones, flasks, and roundels with spiraling ribbons of color. Placed on top of a fifty-by-twenty-foot plate-glass ceiling, the forms are suspended in midair and make dramatic use of natural light. Fluorescent lights augment daylight on cloudy days and illuminate the pavilion at night. The tinted glass side walls of the pavilion allow viewers to immerse themselves in the space without distraction. As visitors walk under this pavilion, they experience a seemingly underwater world of glass shapes and forms a few feet above their heads.

Continuing on, pedestrians will approach the Crystal Towers, which mark the center of the bridge. The towers rise forty feet above the bridge deck and serve as beacons of light for the bridge and city. Illuminated from the landscape below, the forms glow at night. Chihuly made the large crystals from Polyvitro, a polyurethane material developed to withstand the elements. He first used Polyvitro crystals in the Crystal Mountain, a sculpture created for the exhibition Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem 2000. The Crystal Tower elements are raw, brutal forms, monumental and bold, that appear as if cut from mountain peaks or taken from frozen alpine lakes.

At the Venetian Wall the pedestrian sees an eighty-foot installation displaying over 100 Chihuly sculptures. The Venetian Wall is a rich array of objects from three of Chihuly's series: Venetians, Ikebana, and Putti, which provide a unique opportunity to see how one series inspires another. The Venetians are exuberant sculptures with origins in Venetian Art Deco glass. Ikebana are quiet pieces, created in the spirit of traditional Japanese floral arrangements. Putti were popular figures in European art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and represent Cupid, the Roman god of love. Chihuly's Putti play and dance atop classical formed vases. The case is made of black stainless steel frames and translucent glass walls, providing natural backlighting during the day. Fiber-optic lights illuminate the artwork at night. The Venetian Wall is a collection of some of the largest blown-glass works executed in the history of the medium.