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Asheville Regional Airport AVL Forward terminal construction in Fletcher near Asheville, North Carolina, viewed from the airport apron with scaffolding and exposed structural steel framing revealing the open terminal structure during construction. The airport terminal modernization and expansion was designed by Gresham Smith and is being built by Hensel Phelps for the Greater Asheville Regional Airport Authority – © 2026 David Oppenheimer – Performance Impressions photography archives performanceimpressions.com
October 26, 2023 - AIA tour of the Columbus Municipal Light Plant.
"The Columbus Municipal Light Plant, vacant for years until it was restored for office and auction space, is the 2022 winner of Columbus Landmarks' James B. Recchie Design Award.
The plant, located at 577 W. Nationwide Blvd. near Lower.com Field, home of the Columbus Crew, was built in 1903 and operated until the city closed it in 1977.
It took 3.5 years and ultimately $35 million in construction and other costs to renovate. According to Columbus Landmarks, more than 2,000 tons of material had to be removed from the site.
But crews were able to preserve coal hoppers, hopper doors, interior cranes, rail tracks and the tall smokestack, now a landmark itself: yellow with black vertical lettering spelling out COLUMBUS with the Crew logo below.
"What moved everyone was the attention to detail," said Rebecca Kemper, Columbus Landmarks' CEO.
That included adapting an original coal hopper into office space and retaining master switches that once controlled power to Downtown, including City Hall, plus smaller details such as using control wheels as door components, Kemper said.
It's a project where care was taken, Kemper said. "A real understanding that Brad DeHays had a vision for this site," she said.
DeHays is president of Connect Realty, which developed the site. Sandvick Architects of Cleveland designed the project.
In an email, DeHays said his company bought the property in late 2014. He said it is 100% leased and the businesses will employ more than 215. The buildings have a total of 110,000 square feet.
The three-member jury that reviewed the projects noted: “This is an example of a building that could have been lost, but instead it has been reimagined in a way that took creative thinking and attention to detail. The building honors its history through the integration of industrial artifacts throughout, including turning the suspended coal hopper into office space.
"This project demonstrates how even the most derelict industrial building can be brought back to life.” Previous description of the project: www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2022/10/05/columbus-mun...
Based on memory, the structure seems to date from 1970s or 1980s, when the world was a much different place and foreign imported steel started to compete with US-made steel. Now 40 or 50 years later the valuable land adjacent to the cluster of hospitals in downtown Grand Rapids with immediate access to I-196 is being put to another purpose. So down comes the cement and steel, hopefully to be resold or repurposed. If nothing else, then the solid waste can be recycled rather than to rest at a landfill mountain. The right half of the picture shows a newer parking structure that connects directly to the hospital buildings.
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Most river cruise photographers wait for the finished skyline. This frame goes the other way, catching a building mid-birth — a cantilevered steel frame jutting out over the elevated tracks, bare structural bones with none of the glass or cladding that will eventually hide them. Angled bracing crisscrosses beneath the exposed floor plates, and a red construction hoist climbs one side like scaffolding on a ship's mast. Two workers stand on an open deck partway up, dwarfed by the scale of the steel around them, and their presence gives the whole tangle of beams a sense of proportion it would otherwise lack.
What makes the image is the layering: raw new construction stacked directly above a CTA train gliding past on the elevated tracks, with an older brick building's arched windows visible behind, and a shallow copper dome peeking in at the bottom edge. Four distinct eras of Chicago building stock occupy one frame — the dome likely 19th century, the brick structure early 20th, the train infrastructure decades old, and the steel skeleton entirely present-tense. Shooting from the water puts the photographer at an angle nobody gets from the sidewalk, low enough to look up into the underside of the cantilever and catch the ordinary chaos of an active job site — safety cables, temporary lighting, plywood decking — as its own kind of urban texture.
Abstract from the Mon River bridge at Belle Vernon.
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View through the steel structure that supports the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France.
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