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Construction staff of the Tyne bridge, employed by Dorman Long & Co. Ltd, 2 March 1928 (TWAM ref. 3730/15/14). The men are identified below.
standing left to right: J. Morgan (Foreman Mason), W. Kingston (Cashier), K. Addison (General Foreman), F. Conaron (Chief Timekeeper), F. Atkinson (Chief Storekeeper).
seated left to right: O.T.R. Leishman (Engineer 2), J. Geddie (Chief Assistant), J. Ruck (Agent), G.I.B. Gowring (Engineer 1), E.W.C. Symes (Engineer 3), W. Pattison (Foremen Carpenter).
seated on ground: F.D.S. Sandeman (Junior).
The Tyne Bridge is one of the North East’s most iconic landmarks. These photographs were taken by James Bacon & Sons of Newcastle and document its construction from March 1927 to October 1928. They belonged to James Geddie, who was Chief Assistant Engineer on the construction of the Bridge with Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd. of Middlesbrough.
(Copyright) We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons. Please cite 'Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums' when reusing. Certain restrictions on high quality reproductions and commercial use of the original physical version apply though; if you're unsure please email archives@twmuseums.org.uk.
Two cranes and some branches at the construction site of the new highway 44 bridge over the Saint Johns River at DeLand, Florida. The new bridge replaces the old draw bridge. Shot in digital infrared.
Poids en ordre de marche : 58 400 kg
Hauteur de travail : 22 m
Restructuration de l'ancien Hôpital Villemin en une résidence intergénérationnelle de 82 logements.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Sud
Adresse : rue de Nabécor
Fonction : Logements
Construction : 2025 → 2026
▻ Architecte : GHA ARCHITECTES
Permis de construire n° PC 54 395 24 00041
▻ Délivré le 24/07/2024
Niveaux : R+4
Hauteur : ≈16,00 m
Surface de plancher existante : 4 821,50 m²
Surface de plancher créée : 849 m²
Here are some of the massive concrete columns that hold up the carriageway decks of the M5 motorway as it passes through the Gordano Valley in North Somerset. This split-level elevated section bridges a gap in the northern escarpment of Tickenham Hill.
Photographed on the late afternoon of Tuesday 8th March 2021.
Travaux de déconstruction de deux bâtiments de l'ancienne école Victor Hugo.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Laxou (54520)
Adresse : rue Victor Hugo
Fonction : Éducation
Déconstruction : 2023
Bamboos are the most popular choice as construction support material in Bangladesh. It's cheap and abundant.
However, safety issues are not accounted for, at all.
On Mon 11 June 1923 at around 0100hrs a fore broke out beneath the platforms at the Pennsylania Railroad's Broad Street station in central Philadelphia and it soon spread to consume the entire station as seen on the cover photograph. The structure destroyed dated from the reconstruction of 1892/3 and was designed by Frank Furness. The station, and its approach tracks, created a massive 'divide' across the city centre that was the subject of many planning complaints even when electrically operated trains started in 1915 to gradually replace some of the steam hauled services into and out of this congested dead end terminus.
If the fire was spectacular the response by the Pennsylvania was no less impressive. On the Monday most peak hour services ran 'as nornal' to other Philapdelphia city stations and even as the fire was still burning the railroad started to build temporary platforms and staircases to the streets below one block back from the devastated station. One the day of the fire 38 electric trains used these new platforms - on the Tuesday this rose to 142 trains. As girders and steelwork cooled under the wrecked train shed roof the construction of new timber platforms commenced from the outer end of the shed to the concourse - this was in use by 151 suburban trains to run into the station on the Wednesday as work continued to restore the other platforms. This involved track laying to gain access to salvage wrecked rolling stock that had been consumed in the fire. By Thursday 14th two tracks and platforms were complete and access to all sixteen rebuilt tracks and platforms was complete within 7 working days.
The roof was dismantled and replaced by 'umbrella' canopies along the platforms. Oddly the terminus's days were in a way already numbered as the Pennsylvania embarked on a massive investment programme involving new tunnels, tracks and stations in the central area of the city during the 1920s and '30s. This substantially reduced the use of the station that was, again, consumed by fire in 1943. It closed completely in 1952 and was wholly demolished by 1953.
We don't do much cementing around here... but when we do it's good to make the best of it. Building our new broadband mast base, it was unfortunate that no one saw the problem before it was too late.
View of the Tyne Bridge in the very early stages of construction, looking from Newcastle upon Tyne over towards Gateshead, 22 March 1927 (TWAM ref. 3730/15/1).
The Tyne Bridge is one of the North East’s most iconic landmarks. These photographs were taken by James Bacon & Sons of Newcastle and document its construction from March 1927 to October 1928. They belonged to James Geddie, who was Chief Assistant Engineer on the construction of the Bridge with Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd. of Middlesbrough.
(Copyright) We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons. Please cite 'Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums' when reusing. Certain restrictions on high quality reproductions and commercial use of the original physical version apply though; if you're unsure please email archives@twmuseums.org.uk.
Scene captured during a day trip to the Waterloopbos in the Netherlands: close-up of the raw concrete shaping the Delta Works experimental setup in this open-air civil engineering laboratory.
Portes ouvertes à la Carrière de Trapp de Raon-l'Étape lors des Journées européennes du patrimoine 2023.
Poids en ordre de marche : 104 500 kg
Capacité du godet : 10 - 14 m³
Over a 106 years old, the Egmore Railway Station in Chennai, remains one of the cities centrally located, renowned landmarks. Its bright red and white colors, and vaulted metal ceiling on the interiors are what make it striking. With typical Victorian wrought iron beams,
This oblique view was taken on the Aqueduct's western side, in the Plaza de Azoguejo, looking southeast.
There was a time in my life when I lived and traveled on landscapes replete with ancient Roman works. But nothing ever quite produced the visceral impact on me that the Segovia Aqueduct did.
From a practical standpoint, it was just built to be the most reliable means of supplying water to one of the empire's smaller and most far-flung outposts. And yet it's one of the Mediteranean world's most staggering demonstrations of civil engineering.
And, in terms of the shudder of astonishment it provides anyone still capable of wonder, it's a masterpiece of artistic design as well. The American poet Walt Whitman wrote, "All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it." What I do to this miraculous bridge of stone is thank it for giving me a flush of pride in what our own murderous hominid species can actually do in a positive sense.
Of course most of the visual punch the Aqueduct delivers is due to its masonry. Giant ashlar blocks of Guadarrama Granite stand there, and have stood there for nineteen centuries, without any mortar holding them together.
The igneous intrusive rock on display here takes its name from the mountain range (Sierra de Quadarrama) that flanks Segovia to its east. The granite dates to the very late Carboniferous period (ca. 300 Ma), and comes from a mass of magma that was emplaced in the upper crust during the Variscan (Hercynian) Orogeny and the assembly of the supercontinent Pangaea.
I'll discuss the local bedrock geology and how the Roman engineers dealt with in photos to follow. But one last thing to note here: if you look closely, you'll see that many ashlar units have small but discernable circular holes in them. These indentations were where the massive blocks were held in pincerlike grips while they were hoisted into position by cranes. That's pretty fancy technology for a culture that had no electrical or steam power—just human and animal muscle aided by the clever use of rudimentary force-multiplying machines.
Oh. I lied. There's one more talking point, too. See the Seventies-era cars parked right along the foot of the Aqueduct's piers? That practice is no longer allowed—to preserve the structure from unnecessary traffic vibrations and from the direct effects of automotive exhaust.
To see the other photos and descriptions in this series, visit my Architectural Geology of Segovia album.
The Prince Edward Viaduct (Bloor Viaduct) is concrete-steel truss bridge spanning the Don River Valley and connecting Bloor Street with Danforth Avenue. The bridge was designed by Edmund W. Burke and opened in 1918. The bridge span is 494 meters and rises 40 meters above the Don Valley. The bridge consists of two decks: a five lane road deck and a two line subway deck.
Overtime the Viaduct became North America’s second most lethal suicide structure, second only to San Francisco’s Golden Gate bridge. To discourage suicides, the ‘Luminous Veil’ barrier was constructed in 2003; designed by architect Derek Revington and the Halcrow Group, it consists of over 9,000 galvanized steel rods, 5 meters high and 13 cm apart, attached to cantilevered girders. In 1999, it won a Canadian Architect Award of Excellence.
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Ilford XP2 Super 400
... diverted water becomes architectural negative space, Shibuya.
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The King (left) and Barry Madlener (right) visited my project today, that does not happen every day!
I was at the Devil's Slide Tunnel opening back in March, shooting for CENews. Infrastructure journalist and author Dan McNichol stands at the opening of the Southbound tunnel bore. Check out his website, here: www.danmcnichol.com
For more info about the Devil's Slide Tunnel, check out the CENews article, here: www.cenews.com/magazine-article-cenews.com-6-2013-devil_s...
Hoover Dam
Boulder City, Nevada near 36.016271, -114.737293
December, 2003
Doing some archive diving and found these shots of both the Nevada and Arizona spillways.
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Sneaky bridge sneaking out from behind the parking deck
Rolling the Second Ave. Bridge into Place
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Scene captured during a day trip to the Waterloopbos in the Netherlands: the rusty remains of a hydraulic engineering experiment.
Poids en ordre de marche CE : 32 000 kg
Largeur de travail : 2 400 mm
Profondeur de travail : 560 mm
Travaux de terrassement de la tranche 3 de ZAC Europôle 2 de la Communauté d'Agglomération Sarreguemines visant à créer 3 plateformes pour un total de 234 915 m².
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Moselle (57)
Ville : Hambach (57910)
Adresse : ZAC Europôle 2
Construction : Avril 2025 → Novembre 2025
Built by Philipp Holzmann AG, 1911. First river tunnel in Continental Europe and still used by pedestrians, cyclists and motor-cars. St Pauli, Hamburg, Germany.
Still on the eastern side of the Aqueduct, and in this case facing southwestward.
From this perspective, the structure appears much less massive than in the first two images of the series. Indeed, it seems open, airy, and almost fragile enough to be tipped over in a strong wind. This is largely due to the fact that the arches of the lower arcade are borne on very high and relatively narrow piers. "Delicacy" is not a word that usually springs to mind when one looks at Roman civil engineering, but it's almost applicable here.
Still, the big blocks of Late Carboniferous Guadarrama Granite have rested in their proper places, without the benefit of mortar, for nineteen centuries. And this section of the bridge, its tallest and heaviest, stands on Segovia's trickiest type of bedrock, Upper Cretaceous sandstone much softer than the gneiss and granite underlying the Aqueduct farther to the southeast. Obviously, the Romans laid their footings here most skillfully.
To see the other photos and descriptions in this series, visit my Architectural Geology of Segovia album.
Arches and shapes under the McCullough bridge in North Bend, Oregon USA in mid-afternoon light. The green lattice of the center bridge section is just visible in the distance. This bridge was designed by master engineer Conde B. McCullough and was the longest structure on Oregon's highway system when it was constructed in 1936. Located on Hwy. 101 in North Bend, Oregon USA.