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View of the Metro Bridge across the River Tyne nearing completion, June 1978 (TWAM ref. DT.TUR/4/CN11163A).
Tyne & Wear Archives presents a series of images taken by the Newcastle-based photographers Turners Ltd.
The firm had an excellent reputation and was regularly commissioned by local businesses to take photographs of their products and their premises. Turners also sometimes took aerial and street views on their own account and many of those images have survived, giving us a fascinating glimpse of life in the North East of England in the second half of the Twentieth Century.
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This is an older photo of The London Eye that I love even though the Perspex in top left of photo is smeared with dirt. The pods are really roomy, airconditioned for comfort and not overpacked with people. As I said above the outside of my pods Perspex needed cleaning but I still had a great view of London.
The London Eye, originally the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is the world's tallest cantilevered observation wheel, and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over three million visitors annually. It has been featured numerous times in popular culture.
The structure is 135 metres (443 ft) tall and the wheel has a diameter of 120 metres (394 ft). When it opened to the public in 2000 it was the world's tallest Ferris wheel, until the 160-metre (525 ft) Star of Nanchang in China surpassed it in 2006. Unlike taller wheels, the Eye is cantilevered and supported solely by an A-frame on one side. The Eye was the highest public viewing point in London until 2013, when it was surpassed by the 245-metre (804 ft) View from The Shard observation deck.
The London Eye adjoins the western end of Jubilee Gardens (previously the site of the former Dome of Discovery), on the South Bank of the River Thames between Westminster Bridge and Hungerford Bridge beside County Hall, in the London Borough of Lambeth. The nearest tube station is Waterloo.
Design and construction
Supported by an A-frame on one side only, the Eye is described by its operators as a cantilevered observation wheel.
The London Eye was designed by the husband-and-wife team of Julia Barfield and David Marks of Marks Barfield Architects. The rim of the Eye is supported by tensioned steel cables and resembles a huge spoked bicycle wheel. The lighting was re-done with LED lighting from Color Kinetics in December 2006 to allow digital control of the lights as opposed to the manual replacement of gels over fluorescent tubes.
Mace was responsible for construction management, with Hollandia as the main steelwork contractor and Tilbury Douglas as the civil contractor. Consulting engineers Tony Gee & Partners designed the foundation works while Beckett Rankine designed the marine works.
Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners assisted The Tussauds Group in obtaining planning and listed building consent to alter the wall on the South Bank of the Thames. They also examined and reported on the implications of a Section 106 agreement attached to the original contract, and also prepared planning and listed building consent applications for the permanent retention of the attraction, which involved the co-ordination of an Environmental Statement and the production of a planning supporting statement detailing the reasons for its retention.
The spindle, hub, and tensioned cables that support the rim
The wheel was constructed in sections which were floated up the Thames on barges and assembled lying flat on piled platforms in the river. Once the wheel was complete it was lifted into an upright position by a strand jack system made by Enerpac. It was first raised at 2 degrees per hour until it reached 65 degrees, then left in that position for a week while engineers prepared for the second phase of the lift.
The project was European with major components coming from six countries: the steel was supplied from the UK and fabricated in the Netherlands by Hollandia, the cables came from Italy, the bearings came from Germany (FAG/Schaeffler Group), the spindle and hub were cast in the Czech Republic, the capsules were made by Poma in France (and the glass for these came from Italy), and the electrical components from the UK
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i Just love the way this sunset photo turned out. that evening i spent in Brooklyn bridge park was one of most cooperative evenings i could have asked for :)
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The Millennium Footbridge over the river Thames in London. The bridge links Bankside to the area know as The City of London and has a beautiful view of St Paul's Cathedral as cross northward. These photos were taken after the first Covid-19 lockdown and London was empty of tourists and locals. It was like a ghost town. If you have seen the Harry Potter Films you would have seen the bridge with wizards flying under and over it.
Sunset scene of light trails traffic speeds through an intersection in Gangnam center business district of Seoul at Seoul city, South Korea
Today we were organised and headed out to go for a family day at Anderton Boat Lift.
Sat Nav managed to direct us to a domestic housing estate and proudly declared that Anderton Boat Lift was on the right... we had stern words with it and a quick google of the correct postcode got us to our destination.
My daughter has since been telling her friends that we've been on a cruise today... I haven't the heart to break it to her.
Cranes at the construction site of the new highway 44 bridge over the St. Johns River at DeLand, Florida. The new bridge repalcea the old draw bridge.
The longest Pleasure Pier in the World, Southend Pier. Waiting to watch the starling murmurations, they were at this point huddled on the pier.
This is, I suspect, an 'official' Southern Railway photograph as it has arrived as part of a bequest from an old colleague who was very much a 'Southern man'. It shows the south eastern 'wing-wall' or abutment of the bridges over Falcon Road - and this would be the Falcoln Road in Battersea, just to the east of the complex of tracks and platforms at Clapham Junction Station. Indeed, a check on Google Earth shows that the bull-nosed white glazed bricks still form the edge to the abutment at this point.
This is a London after five years of war and so yes, all is looking distinctly shabby and down at heel. Cart 112 stands at the side of the road and a London Transport trolleybus overhead pole, with two white band painted around it, stands guard and you can just make out the overhead wires for the 626 service that squeezed under this 16ft bridge here.
The posters make the scene with one of the classic wartime propoganda posters on show ; the famous "Walk short distances" with the pony holding the shoelace tells that familiar refrain of "go by Shanks' pony". It was designed by Polish emigres Lewitt-Him. I suspect that would be a useful one today given the incessant car frenzy we live amongst! Many of the other brands are still with us today. Cadbury, Oxo and Guinness, the latter represented by one of the iconic Gilroy Guinness 'Zoo' posters. Brooke Bond are best recalled for tea, not so much for beef cubes who are often associated with Bovril or indeed with Oxo as seen below! Senior's fish and meat pastes were, I think, a London based company now defunct.
London, Chatham & Dover Railway insignia on remains from the former Blackfriars Railroad Bridge. Dated 1864 the insignia includes the shields of the Cities of London, Dover and Rochester, the County of Kent and "Invicta," the motto of the County of Kent.
The remains of the old (1932) railway bridge over the St Johns river in DeBary, Florida. Shot in digital infrared.
Dignitaries assemble on Roker Pier to watch a block being laid during the visit of the Channel Fleet to Sunderland, 10 September 1895 (TWAM ref. 3768/8).
The Sunderland Daily Echo reported that on 10 September 1895 “Admiral Lord Walter Kerr, in the presence of his staff, members of the River Wear Commission and many influential gentleman laid a 45 ton block in the new Pier.
This set of images relates to Roker Pier, Sunderland and is taken from a scrapbook kept by Henry Hay Wake, chief engineer to the River Wear Commission.
Henry Wake designed Roker Pier and also oversaw its construction from beginning to end. The Pier' s foundation stone was laid in September 1885 and it was formally opened on 23 September 1903. The Pier is 2,800 feet long and was built of Aberdeen granite and concrete cement at a total cost of £290,000.
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Photograph of the Queensferry cantilever from end of approach viaduct. Here we have a view taken from a point somewhat to the right of centre line and a considerable height above sea level, as a result of which the perspective of the picture is exceptionally good. Considerable progress is evident, the upper ends of columns being already above rail level, and owing to the angle of the former the box girders are beginning to project beyond them. At the intersection of disagonal bracing, the first of the uprights carrying the internal viaduct is conspicuous. The solid appearance of the end of the lattice girder platforms is due to the fact that, with a view to utilise inside for rooms, offices, &c, they were boarded in. This picture forms one of a pair, and was the first of the series taken from a point about the centre line. Transcription from: Philip Phillips, 'The Forth Railway Bridge', Edinburgh, 1890.
Travaux de développement et d'interconnexion des réseaux de chauffage urbain de la Métropole du Grand Nancy.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy (54500)
My first visit to the remains of Glenfarg Railway, made a bit more special by the weather conditions.
Cut through solid rock by hand, the Falkirk Tunnel takes the Union Canal under the edge of Callendar Park. The 620m tunnel became a requirement when 18th century industrialist William Forbes, who had purchased Callendar House, objected to the proposed route of the canal as being too close to his property. Just goes to show that planning permision was a problem even back then!
A Remarkable piece of Engineering ...Seen at the "Torres" Riverside Park in the Derbyshire Peak District ..
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Chantier de modernisation de l'échangeur de Pontpierre sur l'autoroute A4 dans le cadre du projet GRIDX.
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. Originally known as Boulder Dam from 1933, it was officially renamed Hoover Dam, for President Herbert Hoover, by a joint resolution of Congress in 1947. Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium called Six Companies, Inc., which began construction on the dam in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques were unproven. The torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned the dam over to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule. Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume (when it is full). The dam is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction; nearly a million people tour the dam each year. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 (US 93) ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened. As the United States developed the Southwest, the Colorado River was seen as a potential source of irrigation water. An initial attempt at diverting the river for irrigation purposes occurred in the late 1890s, when land speculator William Beatty built the Alamo Canal just north of the Mexican border; the canal dipped into Mexico before running to a desolate area Beatty named the Imperial Valley. Though water from the Imperial Canal allowed for the widespread settlement of the valley, the canal proved expensive to maintain. After a catastrophic breach that caused the Colorado River to fill the Salton Sea, the Southern Pacific Railroad spent $3 million in 1906–07 to stabilize the waterway, an amount it hoped in vain would be reimbursed by the Federal Government. Even after the waterway was stabilized, it proved unsatisfactory because of constant disputes with landowners on the Mexican side of the border. As the technology of electric power transmission improved, the Lower Colorado was considered for its hydroelectric-power potential. In 1902, the Edison Electric Company of Los Angeles surveyed the river in the hope of building a 40-foot (12 m) rock dam which could generate 10,000 horsepower (7,500 kW). However, at the time, the limit of transmission of electric power was 80 miles (130 km), and there were few customers (mostly mines) within that limit. Edison allowed land options it held on the river to lapse—including an option for what became the site of Hoover Dam. In the following years, the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), known as the Reclamation Service at the time, also considered the Lower Colorado as the site for a dam. Service chief Arthur Powell Davis proposed using dynamite to collapse the walls of Boulder Canyon, 20 miles (32 km) north of the eventual dam site, into the river. The river would carry off the smaller pieces of debris, and a dam would be built incorporating the remaining rubble. In 1922, after considering it for several years, the Reclamation Service finally rejected the proposal, citing doubts about the unproven technique and questions as to whether it would in fact save money.
Dystopie - Utopie/
Dystopia - Utopia
HFF
;-)
Hinter der Trommel her
Trotten die Kälber
Das Fell für die Trommel
Liefern sie selber.
(...)/
Following the drum
The calves trot
The skin for the drum
They deliver themselves.
(...)
(Bertold Brecht - Kälbermarsch/March Of The Calves)
Privatum commodum publico cedit/
Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz/
Private convenience yields to public welfare.
Poids en ordre de marche : 20 711 kg
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
Poids en ordre de marche : 51 000 kg
Hauteur de travail : 23 m
Démolition du centre d’intervention de Nancy-Joffre.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Centre
Adresse : 22, boulevard Joffre
Fonction : Autre
Construction : 1991
Démolition : 2025
Permis de démolir n° PD 54 395 24 00018
▻ Délivré le 26/08/2024
Niveaux : R+5
Hauteur : 32,00 m
Surface de plancher : 6 889 m²
Superficie du terrain : 2 289 m²
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so, before the official open to vehicle to start less than 30-45 minutes away, police had to clear out all the lowriders parked on the bridge for the grand-opening celebration. as soon as the historical first car crossing (actually two cars drove side-by-side to cross the bridge), lapd stopped one of the lowrider and issued a ticket. the po po surrounded the owner of the car next to the man in white hat in the back.
Spectacular Engineering New LIRR Terminal 150 Feet Below Manhattan NY - IMRAN™
I consider Manhattan, New York my forever American hometown for 36 years! I have always admired the feats of engineering that show up as literally countless skyscrapers and train tunnels upon tunnels under the granite foundation since more than a century.
I have also been a Long Island Railroad (LIRR) user since 1993, literally years ago when I first found the spot to build my home on the NY South Shore beach in Suffolk. But those trains went from the old dilapidated Penn Station, under the landmark Madison Square Gardens.
Grand Central Terminal is an architectural work of art. I often go there when in the area. But I only took subway trains because the other trains went north of New York City, and Long Island is to the East.
After many years of incredible underground dogging and construction, plus the completion of a decades old planned tunnel, now I can take LIRR to Long Island from here too. I just didn’t have a chance to use it yet.
I was in Manhattan last week to speak at a Future Of SaaS event at the world famous Rockefeller Center.
After a great dinner hosted at world by the organizers, one of the attendees and I were chatting about technology when we realized we both were going to take the same LIRR train. He mentioned taking it from Grand Central and I said I hadn’t used it yet. So off we went.
What an incredible experience. The train tracks are nearly 150 feet beneath the city. That is nearly 15 stories DEEP. That’s deeper than the tallest buildings in many cities.
Imagine the marvel of engineering this is as I looked at the view from the escalator. it leads to the $12 Billion station that’s 350,000 square feet (33,000 square meters)! It took basically a century from idea to conception but what an amazing feat. I’ll post a video later. As you can tell, I ❤️ NY!
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In contrast to the first image of this set, this shot was taken on the eastern side of the Aqueduct. It faces south.
As noted in other photo descriptions, I find myself more and more drawn into the immortality of frozen time, as embodied in the human figures captured in the frame. They may be dwarfed by the double-arcaded stone span behind them, but what they happen to be doing in this instant has a mythic significance I can't consciously explain. There's the traffic cop with his white helmet; people meeting on a crosswalk; bestockinged, book-laden girls strolling home from school; a quintet of men ascending the far steps like a skirmish line of soldiers.
But above them looms another form of eternity, or at least transmillennial longevity. The Aqueduct could have not survived this long had its ancient engineers not been experts in laying foundation in less-than-optimal substrates.
For the disposition of Segovia's underlying bedrock is a rather complicated affair. In the walk of a few blocks one goes from solid gneiss, metamorphosed from a granite protolith in the Cambrian period or earlier, to a fine-grained, Late Paleozoic granite, and then to a much softer sandstone of Upper Cretaceous age.
Here, in the plaza, where the bridge reaches its greatest overall height and mass, the Romans discovered, no doubt to their chagrin, that this is where the sandstone more or less begins. So they took special care to excavate what in the modern literature is usually called, with frustrating vagueness, "foundation pits."
Were these just holes dug down to bedrock in which the lowest courses of Guadarrama Granite blocks were set? Or did they fill the pits with rubble that would compact and form the most solid footing under the ashlar piers? Whatever the exact method they used, it probably didn't involve concrete—the production of which would've required a local source of limestone. Which there isn't.
To see the other photos and descriptions in this series, visit my Architectural Geology of Segovia album.
The old RR bridge over the St Johns River at DeBary in Volusia County, Florida being slowly engulfed by the trees. Shot in digital infrared.