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Due to its exposed location, the Angel of the North sculpture has to withstand winds of over 100 mph (160 km/h). Thus, 600 metric tonnes (661 tons) of concrete were used to create foundations which anchor the sculpture to rock 20 metres (66 ft) below.
#05. Malta. Marsascala. March09. Sant Antnin Waste Treatment Plant
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This little cantilevered box has clearly seen better decades. It's a control house, the kind built onto Chicago's elevated rail and bridge structures wherever an operator needed a vantage point and shelter — but this one's long past active use, its stucco cracked and stained, its windows dark or broken, someone's tag scratched into the corner glass. The black steel framework it hangs from tells a cleaner story: heavy rivets, cross-bracing, guy wires running taut overhead, all of it doing exactly what it was built to do a century on.
Shooting up at an angle isolates the cabin against a soft brick building behind it, letting the contrast do the talking — creamy stucco gone the color of old teeth, versus dark iron holding its own against gravity and weather both. There's a particular kind of beauty in infrastructure nobody maintains anymore: paint that's stopped being repainted, glass that's stopped getting replaced, a structure that just keeps standing because tearing it down would cost more than leaving it be.
It's not a glamorous shot, but it's an honest one — the unretouched underside of a city that mostly shows its polished face.