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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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Stitched panoramic shot of the Humber Bridge, taken at low tide from the southern banks of the river estuary at Water's Edge Country Park in North Lincolnshire.
Neil Walsh
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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.
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.
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.
Capacité de la décapeuse : 28,28 m³
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
Taken at the 2011 Open House weekend in London. The Broadgate Tower is one of the new additions to the skyscrapers found in City of London, completed in 2009. You can also get the amazing skyline of London, including the view of the widely recognised 'The Gerkin' building.
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It was quite a contrast with the chaotic traffic zooming above and the quite waters along the bike path below.
View of progress with the Tyne Bridge, 2 February 1928, showing the two halves getting closer together (TWAM ref. 3730/15/5).
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.
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Camera: Minolta XD7
Lens: Minolta MD f1.4/50mm
Film: Agfa Vista Plus 200 ASA
Scanner: Epson Perfection V330
Edit: Snapseed
Visit of the Marquis of Londonderry to Roker Pier, 28 October 1891 (TWAM ref. 3768/8). On this occasion the Marquis placed a stone inscribed ‘Londonderry 28.10.91 in a concrete block to be laid in the pier head at a future date.
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.
(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 info@twarchives.org.uk.
The Millau viaduct cuts through an azure sky like a golden line connecting earth to clouds. I wanted to capture its apparent lightness despite its monumental structure.
A postcard of the bridges across the River Tyne, showing the Tyne Bridge under construction, 1928 (TWAM ref. DX681/15).
The postcard is unused.
This set celebrates the many postcards in our collections. The people, places and events they show can give us an insight into the past, documenting the landscape, the fashions, the way we lived. Some postcards are unused but others tell us something about the people who bought them, through the messages they wrote. They can give us a fascinating glimpse into people’s lives.
(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: the reflected remains of a hydraulic engineering experiment.
Traffic flows across the Golden Gate Bridge at night in San Francisco, California.
This photo was features in Flickr's Explore, Highest position: 144 on Tuesday, August 5, 2008.
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