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Poids en ordre de marche : 90 000 kg
Construction de l'ensemble Royal-Hamilius à Luxembourg Ville. L'ensemble comprend 5 immeubles pour 70 appartements sur 7 500 m², 16 000 m² de commerces et services, 10 200 m² de bureaux, 1 300 m² pour un hôtel et 634 places de parking
Pays : Luxembourg🇱🇺
Ville : Luxembourg Ville
Quartier : Centre Ville
Adresse : boulevard Royal
Fonction : Commerces / Logements / Bureaux / Parking
Construction : 2014 → 2019
► Architectes : Foster + Partners / Tetra Kayser Paul & Associés
Niveaux max : R+7
Hauteur max : ≈28.00 m
Surface de plancher : 36 000 m²
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Sunrise time at The Tungabhadra Dam, Hospet, Karnataka.
The chief architect of this dam was Dr.Thirumala Iyengar. The construction was started in 1949 & completed in 1953. It was a joint venture between erstwhile Hyderabad State & Madras Presidency. Now it's currently under the Govt of Karnataka. This dam serves many purposes like irrigation, power, flood control, etc. This dam is also a major tourist attraction as it also holds a beautiful garden & a sanctuary.
Boat goes in at bottom. Wheel spins round. Boat goes out at top. Brilliant. (It works the other way, too!)
Looking generally west towards the 6th Street Viaduct over the Los Angeles River with downtown Los Angeles in the background
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When the bridge was constructed in 1932, none of the buildings in the skyline (except the low buildings in the foreground) were present
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Makes me wonder what the skyline will look like 77 years from now. The bridge probably won't be around then...
From the Los Angeles Times
www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bridges18-2009feb18,0,58...
Bridge design sparks clash in Los Angeles
The 6th Street Viaduct, built in 1932, features a streamline-moderne monolith of steel arches and concrete towers. Preservationists criticize the proposed spare, modern cable-stayed bridge.
By Cara Mia DiMassa and Corina Knoll
February 18, 2009
The bridges that span the Los Angeles River offer a history lesson of how Los Angeles became a modern city.
There's the Cesar Chavez Bridge, with its colossal porticoes, embellished with spiral columns and a replica of the city seal. The bridge, decorated with elements of the Spanish Baroque style, is an architectural nod to the historic El Camino Real, of which it is a part, and to the city's Spanish heritage.
The beaux-arts North Broadway Bridge, originally named the Buena Vista Viaduct, is one of the river's older structures and was the state's longest and widest concrete arch bridge when it opened in 1911.
Then there is the 6th Street Viaduct, a streamline-moderne monolith of steel arches and concrete towers built in 1932.
The city wants to replace the span with a spare, modern cable-stayed bridge. Officials released new design plans for the bridge in recent days that were met with criticism from those who say that the modern look has no place amid the ornate spans.
"I said as far as I am concerned, if you are going to put this bridge with cables there, you might as well not put a bridge there at all. I would rather not see one there," said Victoria Torres, a board member of the Boyle Heights Historical Society. "It's very disappointing when the city is trying to push something on you that you didn't agree with."
At two-thirds of a mile long, the Sixth Street Viaduct is the largest and longest span across the Los Angeles River. Known for its two sweeping steel arches and a rather notable curve in the middle, the viaduct is punctuated at either end by decorative pylons with fluted, zigzag designs. Railroad tracks run underneath on both banks of the river.
When the viaduct was built, masons used concrete from a plant that had been constructed on site at the river's edge for the building of the bridge. The practice was revolutionary at the time -- but an aggregate used in the making of the concrete caused it to have a high alkali content. As water has seeped into the concrete over time, the concrete has begun to erode. The rare degenerative condition is called alkali-silica reaction, and officials say it has weakened the viaduct to the point that officials say it has a 70% chance of collapsing in a major earthquake within 50 years. It is the only span along the river to have such a condition.
"It is an irreversible chemical erosion," said Department of Public Works spokeswoman Tonya Durrell. "We describe it as a pretty sick bridge, like a cancer."
City officials have been debating what to do about the bridge for several years, weighing three options: retrofitting it, replacing it or doing nothing. The latter made little sense, they said, because of the severity of the erosion.
After a series of public meetings over the last two years, city engineers decided that replacing the bridge was the only viable option, because retrofitting would yield a life cycle of only about 30 years. Outside of exact replication, they considered four possible designs, said Durrell, two that were modern and two that included more historical features, before recommending the cable-stayed bridge.
"Once you take down a monumental structure like the 6th Street Bridge, it was our opinion that we ought to build something state-of-the-art as opposed to a replica," said DPW engineer John Koo. A replica, he said, would cost an extra $30 million.
Philip Richardson, program manager of the DPW's bridge improvement program, said officials worry that delays over the design could result in a loss of state funding.
At the meeting where the new design was unveiled, City Engineer Gary Moore said he thought the replacement should have a "wow factor."
A model of the proposed span shows two rectangular towers in the middle of the bridge, with cables down both sides.
City officials said the tight curve on the current bridge would be straightened, and the bridge would run from one bank to the other with a much more gentle curve.
But critics said the design was a direct affront to the direction that advisory committee members had suggested to the city.
Torres, who has been a member of the 6th Street Viaduct community advisory committee, said she and others had voiced overwhelming support for an option that recreated the bridge exactly as it is now, with modern construction.
Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar, who represents the communities on both sides of the viaduct, said he favored keeping some of the historical aspects of the original bridge -- though he said he was waiting to hear community reaction about the design.
"We have very few iconic structures to begin with, but if you look at these bridges, they represent Los Angeles," he said.
Huizar used to have a paper route and would ride his bike along the 6th Street Bridge from Boyle Heights to pick up Japanese newspapers in Little Tokyo.
"I would ride my bike over the bridge beginning in the fifth grade all the way to the ninth grade, and I'd pick up the newspapers and go distribute them in Boyle Heights," he said. "I know these bridges well."
Mike Buhler, director of advocacy for the Los Angeles Conservancy, said his organization had not yet conceded that the viaduct necessarily needed to be replaced -- though he quickly added that the organization would never advocate for an alternative that would jeopardize public safety. The organization has not yet taken a stand on the new design.
The cost of replacing the viaduct with the proposed structure is estimated to be about $345 million, officials said.
The bridges are throwbacks to a time in Los Angeles before sprawl, when linking the city center on the west side of the Los Angeles River and the bustling neighborhoods on the east side was of key importance.
The spans have become treasured historic structures and celebrated in scores of movies, including "Grease," "Devil in a Blue Dress" and "Terminator 2."
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
â–» 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
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
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Poids en ordre de marche : 44 900 - 59 400 kg
Hauteur de travail : 23 m
Démolition de la résidence pour personnes âgées Anatole-France qui enjambé la rue Anatole France au Havre.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Normandie
Département : Seine-Maritime (76)
Ville : Le Havre (76600)
Adresses : rue Anatole France / rue Raspail
Fonction : Logements
Déconstruction : juin 2021 → septembre 2021
Niveaux : R+6
Hauteur : ≈23,00 m
Chantier du réaménagement du hangar 43 pour créer un parc d'activité nautique.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Normandie
Département : Seine-Maritime (76)
Ville : Le Havre (76600)
Adresse : quai du Brésil
Fonction : Industrie
Dates : 2020 → 2021
► Architecte : RICHEZ-ASSOCIÉS
PC n° 076 351 19 H0108
Surface de plancher : 3 565 m²
The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge stretches gracefully across the bay, linking the city to the East Bay with muscular poise and engineered elegance. Completed in 1936, the bridge features a double-deck design and is composed of two major spans—this view highlights the western span with its cantilever and suspension elements. The structure’s steel latticework stands bold against the blue sky, its vertical cables forming a rhythmic pattern. Treasure Island sits just beyond the tower, and the container cranes of Oakland peek through the mist. It’s a portrait of California infrastructure at its most iconic: purposeful, enduring, and framed by natural beauty.
Road construction near Vinh Long. My uncle Ed managed Vietnam operations for a New York based civil engineering firm in 1969-70.
Vista showing the chalk cliffs at Saltdean and an undercliff walk that extends west, over 3 miles, to the Brighton Marina. The route was designed by Borough Engineer David Edwards, 1933, using over 13,000 tons of cement and 150,000 concrete blocks. City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
(CC BY-NC-ND - credit: Images George Rex)
so i guess this was the photo that i drove more than 3000 miles from Miami to New york. when i finally got there, the skies were ugly and cloudy and then all of a sudden from nowhere sun appeared. guess who was very happy :-)
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A mini-series following my 44mm-high Homies character Pelon, where he poses for photo ops at potholes on the streets of Mount Tabor Park.
Leadership fixes potholes, not patching.
Chronic neglect of Portland's streets is manifesting in the burgeoning number and size of dangerously large potholes across the city. Here, pothole road damage is seen in Mount Tabor Park, Portland, Oregon.
Engineering: From a technical perspective, a great deal of information can be gleaned from a deep pothole, as it provides a cross-section-view of the pavement structural section, or lack thereof, as in this case. Here, the asphalt wearing surface is heavily pitted, highly oxidized and brittle, confirming many years of neglect. At this pothole, the asphalt layer is thick; confirming this road has received an overlay, but perhaps covering up this pothole without first repairing it. The base course layer is hard to characterize because of the quantity of water present. Roadway base course should be well-graded, faceted aggregate so as to provide optimum particle interlock. This dangerous pothole, in the traveled way and where pedestrians cross, can be repaired by cutting out and reconstructing, but simply patching or overlaying will rapidly lead to a repeat failure, preventing a level of service, or service life, that should be reasonably expected of it.
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The majestic Manhattan Bridge is silhouette by the setting evening sun. The skyline of lower Manhattan is silhouette as well. The new Freedom Tower can be seen just to the left of the bridge. Prints of this image can be found at fineartamerica.com/featured/silhouette-of-the-manhattan-b...
In Paris, this is simply called Gare du Nord, which means North Station. Gare is Station. Nord is North. Speaking of "Nord" I first heard about this word watching Die Hard III... remember that bottle of aspirin -- Bruce Willis' clue of where the terrorists were taking the Gold -- it says "Nord Des Lignes" -- pinpointing the location somewhere in Canada. And by the way, a lot of Canadian areas are French Speaking.
You are looking at the facade of one of the busiest train stations in the world, and the busiest in Europe. From this train station, one can go to destinations such as Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and United Kingdom. And of course, northern France.
Paris, France
Photo credit: Hayden Clarkin
@the_transit_guy
This is an aerial photograph of the Takaosan Interchange, located in Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan.
For more information:
nickeyscircle.com/complex-highway-interchange-japan/
The interchange can be viewed using Google Images' satellite imagery.
www.google.com/maps/place/Takaosan+IC,+Minamiasakawamachi...
The old drawbridge and the newly completed concrete bridge over the Saint Johns River at DeLand in Volusia County, Florida. Shot in early morning Fog. The fate of the old bridge is still unknown.
Can't believe the concrete slab is poured and finished too! Just the rails are left to be installed!!!
A ground engineering expert applying shotcrete to a retaining structure
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