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Infrastructure projects in the Turcot area of Montreal have made it necessary for CN to move their main line a bit further north near the de Courcelle crossing in St-Henri. This view is looking west, the tracks used to be further to the left.
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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Último exponente de la legendaria Escuadra de Sarmiento, la corbeta Uruguay intervino en revoluciones, rescates, expediciones, y fue incluso sede flotante de la Escuela Naval, su acción más destacada se realizó entre 1901 y 1903 cuando al mando del almirante Julián Irizar apoyó y luego rescató a la expedición antártica de Otto Nordenskjöld. Quitada de servicio en 1962 fue declarada en 1967 Monumento Histórico Nacional y como tal hoy se exhibe amarrada en el dique 4 de Puerto Madero, en la ciudad de Buenos Aires.
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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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Country: SPAIN
Operator: RENFE
Item: INFRASTRUCTURE
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Wheel Arrangement or Type: -
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Place details: New track outside VALENCIA
Additional notes: JBAT C322/9 1674mm
Original source material: Agfa CT18 35mm slide
Photographer: John Batts
Copyright: Photographer
Library locator reference: JBAT.C322
30937 Transport Photograph Database
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located in Muskegon MI. Part of the old G.T. ferry dock structure. This is where the Milwaukee Clipper is berthed.
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.
nikon FA
nikkor AI-s 18mm f/3.5 lens
ilford pan 400, processed in ilfotec.
Processed and scanned at Nation Photo, Paris.
May 2016.
South East Freeway, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Panasonic Lumix GH1
Panasonic Lumix G 20mm f1.7 Pancake
Urban Photography
with a clear night forecast & no moon i left the house at 9.30pm to shoot startrails 10 minutes away on stockiemuir near the queen's view. i was in position, set up & took 2 test shots when the battery died! (shame because there were a couple of shooting stars out). i popped home, grabbed another battery & headed into town to this newly opened pedestrian bridge over the m8
Traxx 186 011 haalt in Hoofddorp de lege ICM 4096 (en 4093) in. Een hoger fotostandpunt was fijner geweest. :-(
Source: Copy of original photograph.
Set: NEA03.
Date: 1969.
Photographer: © 1969 Mr Neate.
Repository: From the collection of Mrs N. Neate.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
We returned to the Cabana to explore the basement, warehouse and some of the finer points of the rooms and roof.
The Basement was pitch black, wet and breezy. The Warehouse was less breezy and wet but about as dark. All things considered, it was a good mix of moisture, light and breeze...
The Leer Tower. Formerly known as the Cabana and before that, the Thomas Jefferson Hotel.
Opened to the public in 1929, it has been abandoned since 1982.
The Leer Tower features a moorage mast which was designed to tie down zeppelins and balloons at the time of its completion.
Twenty floors of fun, ballrooms, flooded basements, rooftop views, executive suites, offices, and broken televisions.
Here is an old picture of the Brent Spence Bridge carrying Interstates 71 and 75 over the Ohio River, which I took from the Covington side three years ago. The Brent Spence Bridge was 54 years old when I took this picture. It turned 57 this year, when a couple of semi-truck drivers tried to blow it up. The bridge is currently closed for repairs a bunch of optimistic Kentucky engineers say will take a month, though I don't know whether I buy that. Northern Kentuckians have been complaining loudly about the ricketiness of this bridge for well over a decade, and I can't imagine that melting part of it did anything to help its structural integrity. Northern Kentuckians want the state or the federal government to build them a new bridge. They're not going to get it.
This leaves me with a sensation I call "haddenfreude." I won't explain the etymology, but I define it as a feeling of pleasure derived by a former Western Kentuckian living in Illinois from watching the anti-government Northern Kentuckians' decades of refusal to pay for anything bite them in the ass.
Here's the background. The Brent Spence Bridge was built in 1963 to accommodate 85,000 vehicles per day, or just a little more than half the 152,000 vehicles that crossed the bridge every day in 2019. The bridge is well past its projected life expectancy even without all the extra traffic, and it was crumbling even before the wreck. Seriously, concrete was falling on peoples' cars. In a functional world, this would prompt a government to build a new bridge. But we don't live in a functional world, and the Cincinnati area is one of the least functional parts of it.
Some people would expect that since this bridge carries an Interstate highway, which is a federal government road, the Feds would be the people responsible for building a new bridge, but that's not how that works. The initial cost to build the interstate highway system was mostly paid by the Federal government using money from a new gas tax, with each state kicking in about 10% of the construction costs for the highways within its borders. But once the roads were built, maintenance became a state and local responsibility. The Feds often kick in a lot of money through grants and funding intiatives, but though the current president has spent his entire term putting together an infrastructure spending proposal which is perpetually two weeks from release, there hasn't been a federal infrastructure spending bill for years because nobody wants to pay for anything. Absent a federal bill, the cost of a new interstate highway bridge over a river becomes the responsibility of the states involved. In this case, since Kentucky owns the Ohio River up to the high-water line on the northern bank, the responsibility for a new Cincinnati bridge falls mostly on Kentucky. And the guys down in Frankfort have never really liked to acknowledge the existence of Northern Kentucky.
And Northern Kentuckians don't really help this much, because this is the most anti-tax, anti-government, anti-everything, freeloader corner of an extremely anti-tax state. Politically, Kentucky can swing purple sometimes, but Northern Kentucky is very firmly entrenched Trump country. They begrudge the state every cent it asks to pay for roads or schools or police or fire departments or just civilization in general. Anything. It doesn't matter. These people aren't paying. They shouldn't have to pay. If government can't afford it, then they don't need it.
Except for their bridge, I guess.
Now, as you may recall if you've been coming around here for a long while, Louisville recently built a couple of bridges and a tunnel at a cost of $2.5 billion. Louisville is home to Mitch McConnell, the most powerful senator to come out of Kentucky since Henry Clay, but even Mitch was only able to get the Feds to kick in half the project's cost. The rest fell to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, which decided to fund its half of the project by charging everybody who crossed the new Interstate 65 bridge a $2 toll.
Would Northern Kentucky people be willing to pay a $2 toll to cross an all-new Brent Spence Bridge? The notion is laughable. I can hear the outcry now.
Here's my take on this thing.
The Brent Spence Bridge is one of four bridges carrying interstate highways across the Ohio RIver at Cincinnati. The Interstate 275 loop crosses the river over two bridges, one 20 miles downstream and one 8 miles upstream. And the Interstate 471 spur, which connects to I-275 not far from where Robin's parents live, crosses the river and connects to I-71 only a mile upstream of the Brent Spence. By road, this takes a person only 7 miles out of their way. So there are other paths an interstate highway can take. If it wants, the Feds could easily switch the signs and re-route 71 and 75 over one of those other bridges. New signage might cost 10 or 20 grand. The nation doesn't need the Brent Spence. Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky don't really need the Brent Spence. If they want a new Brent Spence, then they're going to have to pay for it.
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...
"Jill" Post Windmill, located above Clayton Village on Duncton Down. Built 1821 on a site in Dyke Road, Brighton and moved to its current location by a team of oxen in the 1850's. "Jill" ceased working in 1907 and fell into disrepair until she was renovated in 1953. Nowadays she is maintained thanks to the efforts of the Jack and Jill Windmills Society. Re-visited 6 April 2008. Photograph by Justin Brice.