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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.
A high-angle perspective from the steps of the historic Devil's Backbone footbridge looking down across Hinksey Lake, Oxford, as a lone cyclist prepares to cross.
The path itself dates back to at least 1814, originating as an elevated gravel causeway built to allow villagers to walk across the marshy floodplains between South Hinksey and Grandpont. When the railway arrived in 1844, it bisected the path, prompting the construction of pedestrian footbridges over the tracks. The iron and wood-slatted bridge pictured here crosses Hinksey Lake—a body of water created by 19th-century railway gravel extraction.
The Roman aqueduct and bridge known as the Pont du Gard is an incredible masterpeice of engineering to bring 35000 litres of water per hour from the River Eure to the expanding Roman city of Nimes along a 60km long aqueduct. The site is one of the "Grand Sites de France" as well as a UNESCO World Heritage site and features a superb underground museum showing how the aqueduct was built using Roman technology, tools and machines. Allow at least 4 hours for a visit!
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.
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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.
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Direct Rail Services 66424 "Driver Paul Scrivens" and Freightliner 66559 pass through Settle Junction with a couple of empty JNA Bogie Ballast Wagons on a Network Rail CE working out of Carlisle.
The girder structure of the old railroad bridge over the St Johns river where the river emerges from Lake Monroe. Shot in digital infrared.
Shadow and reflections combine to make an abstract image from the bridge abutments of the highway 44 bridge over the St. Johns River in Volusia County, Florida.
Démolition du bâtiment Kronos sur le plateau du Kirchberg à Luxembourg Ville.
P R É S E N T A T I O N
Construction : 1995
Démolition : 2025 → 2026
Fonction : Bureaux
A R C H I T E C T U R E
Niveaux : R+8
Hauteur : ≈35,00 m
L O C A L I S A T I O N
Pays : Luxembourg🇱🇺
Ville : Luxembourg-Ville
Quartier : Kirchberg
Adresse : rue Edward Steichen, 10
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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The bridge house where the operator raises and lowers the draw spans to let boats through. It remains to be seen what will happen to the remains of the old bridge. Behinf the old bridge you can see the new bridge under construction.
One World Trade Center during a visit in 2014 shortly after construction was completed.
It's a spectacular building, but I am still fond of the original twin towers.
A series of support pylons for the new bridge under construction over the Saint Johns River at Highway 44. Shot in digital infrared.
Crane in operation during early stages of the construction of Roker Pier, 1885 (TWAM ref. 3768/8). The granite and concrete blocks used in the construction of the pier were loaded onto wagons by a Goliath crane at the River Wear Commissioners Works and then lifted into position by a 50-ton Titan crane.
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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A pair of 48hp Ruston & Hornsby 4-wheel diesel mechanical locos stored in the yard of specialist civil engineering contractor Peter Lind at Purfleet on 28 May 1971. On the left is 48DS class W.No.237929 built in 1946 and on the right 44/48HP class 'PL1806' W/No.195856 built in 1939. These easily transportable locos have been favourites for civil engineering contractors over many years.
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Peter Lind company history here: www.peterlind.co.uk/history.html
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.
Scene captured during a day trip to the Waterloopbos in the Netherlands: old wave-creating machines rusting away in a pool.
A crane, a palm tree, and the old bridge, with the new bridge under construction along side it at Hwy 44 in Volusia County, Florida.
The London Eye, or the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is Europe's tallest cantilevered observation wheel, and is the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over 3 million visitors annually. It has made many appearances 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.