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Cable riggers installing power lines on transmission tower (India)
The guy with the red shirt is not wearing any safety harness! And he is at least 15 meter high.
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In 1926, William Randolph Hearst, founder of Hearst Corporation, commissioned theatrical scenic artist and architect Joseph Urban to design what was named the International Magazine Building. The six-story structure, designed by Urban and George P. Post & Sons, was completed in 1928 to house the 12 magazines Hearst owned at the time.
Design of the International Magazine Building took place from 1926-27, construction began in 1927 and was completed in 1928 at a cost of $2 million. It was always Hearst's intent that a tower would rise above Eighth Avenue. Between 1945-47, George B. Post & Sons made proposals for nine additional stories on the six-story base. Plans were filed in 1946, but never executed.
Architect
Lord Norman Foster was born in Manchester in 1935. After graduating from Manchester University School of Architecture and City Planning in 1961 he won a Henry Fellowship to Yale University, where he gained a Master's Degree in Architecture.
He is the founder and chairman of Foster + Partners. Established in London in 1967, it is now a worldwide practice, with project offices in more than 20 countries. Over the past four decades the company has been responsible for a strikingly wide range of work, from urban masterplans, public infrastructure, airports, civic and cultural buildings, offices and workplaces to private houses and product design. Since its inception, the practice has received more than 500 awards and citations for excellence and has won more than 86 international and national competitions.
Current and recent work includes the largest single building on the planet, Beijing Airport, the redevelopment of Dresden Railway Station, Millau Viaduct in France, the Swiss Re tower and the Great Court at the British Museum in London, an entire University Campus for Petronas in Malaysia, Hearst Tower in New York, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and research centres at Stanford University, California.
He became the 21st Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate in 1999 and was awarded the Praemium Imperiale Award for Architecture in 2002. He has been awarded the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Architecture (1994), the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture (1983), the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture (1991) and the International Highrise Award (2008). In 1990 he was granted a Knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours, and in 1999 was honoured with a Life Peerage, becoming Lord Foster of Thames Bank.
History of the building from Wikipedia
The six-story base of the headquarters building was commissioned by the founder, William Randolph Hearst and awarded to the architect Joseph Urban. The building was completed in 1928 at a cost of $2 million and contained 40,000 square feet (3,700 m2). The original cast stone facade has been preserved in the new design as a designated Landmark site. Originally built as the base for a proposed skyscraper, the construction of the tower was postponed due to the Great Depression. The new tower addition was completed nearly seventy years later, and 10,000 Hearst employees moved in on 26 June 2006.[1]
The tower – designed by the architect Norman Foster, structurally engineered by WSP Cantor Seinuk, and constructed by Turner construction – is 46 stories tall, standing 182 meters (597 ft) with 80,000 square metres (860,000 sq ft) of office space. The uncommon triangular framing pattern (also known as a diagrid) required 9,500 metric tons (10,480 tons) of structural steel – reportedly about 20% less than a conventional steel frame. Hearst Tower was the first skyscraper to break ground in New York City after September 11, 2001. The building received the 2006 Emporis Skyscraper Award.[2] citing it as the best skyscraper in the world completed that year.
Hearst Tower is the first "green" high rise office building completed in New York City, with a number of environmental considerations built into the plan. The floor of the atrium is paved with heat conductive limestone. Polyethylene tubing is embedded under the floor and filled with circulating water for cooling in the summer and heating in the winter. Rain collected on the roof is stored in a tank in the basement for use in the cooling system, to irrigate plants and for the water sculpture in the main lobby. 85% of the building's structural steel contains recycled material. Overall, the building has been designed to use 26% less energy than the minimum requirements for the city of New York, and earned a gold designation from the United States Green Building Council’s LEED certification program, becoming New York City's first LEED Gold skyscraper.
The atrium features escalators which run through a 3-story water sculpture titled Icefall, a wide waterfall built with thousands of glass panels, which cools and humidifies the lobby air. The water element is complemented by a 70-foot-tall (21 m) fresco painting titled Riverlines by artist Richard Long.
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A train arrives; notice the crossing security with detectors. This is the secondary line towards Kobe with a change of trains at Takarazuka (terminal station).
Een stel arriveert, let op de overweg beveiliging met detectoren. Dit is de secundaire lijn naar Kobe met wisselen van trein in het kopstation van Takarazuka.
LNER 4-6-2 A3 4472 Flying Scotsman passes Chinley station on 15-6-80.
It has changed somewhat now.
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This bridge crosses the Allegheny River northeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and I've seen it several times as I've driven on the parallel PA Turnpike. And every time I've passed it, I've thought to myself that the setting was cool, and the bridge was very cool. I've finally had a chance photograph it.
My seminar swing in Pennsylvania finished on Friday in Harrisburg and I was driving back to Chicago. But that's a long drive in one shot, so I knew I'd have to overnight someplace. Since there was an Holiday Inn Express (one of my favorite hotels) right at the Turnpike exit for this bridge, I thought I'd give it a shot. Unfortunately, the weather had been predicted to be cloudy and rainy for Saturday. So I wasn't holding out much hope for something interesting.
But in the morning, I lucked out. Just a touch of sunlight came out for a few minutes. However, to me this isn't the best shot. It doesn't show how grand the river valley is. But it was about the best perspective I could get short of a boat or doing some really serious trespassing. As it was, I did pass through an open gate in a fenced-in area to get this angle, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
I think a helicopter would be the next step to getting this bridge done right.
Harmarville, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh
May 2, 2009
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This is a pretty cool picture from a different perspective.
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A scene from the not-too-distant past at the north end of Wellingborough station on the Midland Main Line. Semaphore signalling and manual signal boxes still prevailed on the line north of Bedford, as did locomotive haulage. The line had been the preserve of the Class 45 Peaks since their introduction in 1961, but Class 47s would also appear. This unidentified example arriving on a St. Pancras-bound express sports a silver-painted cab roof, at the time a hallmark of Class 47s allocated to Stratford Depot (SF) on the BR Eastern Region.
HST sets appeared on the Midland Main Line from 1982, prompting the upgrading of the line’s signalling. Wellingborough’s old Midland Railway signalbox was saved for posterity, subsequently being re-erected at the Midland Railway Centre at Butterley.
July 1981
Yashica FR-1 camera
Agfa CT18 film.
Part of a project to document the changing transport infrastructure of Newcastle, the Heavy Rail line is expected to be cut by the end of the year.
Rooting : Infrastructure
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Alternating between gravitating around an abyss and discovering the proliferation of roots on a fractured sidewalk and a heaving pavement, Rooting : Infrastructure invites the viewer to delve into intertwined natural and urban elements that are turned inside out and upside down. The work follows an artist residency and an exhibition that François Quévillon made in Mexico City at the end of 2019 for Connecting the Dots.
A little bit out of downtown Kuwait, a major power station (fueled by natural gas), and electrical distribution. This is more interesting to me than the "artificial" tourist destinations elsewhere in Kuwait.
The rail is stamped "1947" and the tie plate "1944"....they just dont make things like they used to!
"No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes..." The Lyrics to King of the Road come to mind when thinking of Tangier. On an island with a year-round population of about 500, it's a laid back and tranquil pace of life with a unique dialect.
Tangier Rappahannock Cruises whisked us from Buzzard Point Marina to Tangier Island late in the morning of May 14, 2016. We rented a golf cart to get around the island since there are no vehicles. I used a Canon GPS Receiver GP-E2 to track points along the route as best I could.
Olympus Pen E-P5 test. Lumix 14mm prime, 2x pictures stitch, in-camera JPEG processing, no tone curve applied.
Sur le toit de l'arche, à la sortie du musée de l'informatique, l'escalier qui permet d'accéder à la vue sur Paris.
The Cherry St. Bridge in Toronto exhibits extensive rusting across all elements of the superstructure, suprising given an apparent refurbishment project that was undertaken only 3 years ago.
The bridge is also a connection to popular bike routes near Toronto's Lake Ontario waterfront.
A monochrome track level view of Torrington Station at the time of closure. Looking back I wish I had taken many more photographs including ones from the north end of the platform, but for some reason I didn't!
The canopy over the track at the far end of the station marks the filling point for dairy tankers.
Today the building has been restored and trades as a café.
Camera: Rollei 35 compact, Carl Zeiss Tessar Lens, AGFA DIA-DIRECT monochrome slide film.
For more photographs of the Withered Arm - The Southern Railway Lines in the West Country - click here: www.jhluxton.com/The-35mm-Film-Archive/Railways/The-Withe...
John Rice, Vice-Chairman, GE, Hong Kong SAR; Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa, Picture taken at the World Economic Forum on the MENA Region, Jordan 2015. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
The Gerald Desmond Bridge (250 feet above a vital channel of the Port of Long Beach and Los Angeles Harbors!) is a through arch bridge that carries 4 lanes of Ocean Boulevard from Interstate 710 in Long Beach, California west across the Cerritos Channel to Terminal Island. It has been slated for replacement for numerous problems... including the fact that so many pieces are falling from it that netting (lower left) was installed. It is still a beautiful arch.
"The Port of Long Beach, one of the largest and busiest Ports in the world and a major inter-modal center for the cargo movement throughout the Western United States and beyond... will be replaced at a cost of one billion dollars, with the first cable-stayed bridge ever built in California."
UPDATE: The demolition of the Gerald Desmond bridge is to happen in May of 2022, according to this (local) article lbpost.com/news/gerald-desmond-bridge-demolition-to-begin...