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This shot was taken at Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport. The airport has wonderful architecture and the design is amazing. I was lucky enough to be able to capture this shot when it had emptied out a bit after my flight had landed.
I regret not having taken more shots but I was pleased to be able to capture a couple and I look forward to posting some further edits in due course.
I processed using Nik HDR Efex Pro and Color Efex Pro.
most private constructions, unless absolutely necessary, were placed under a state of suspension until further notice due to the lockdown
Picture taken as part of my serie about the manual workers in Philippines.
Rowel, construction worker.
We met Rowel (50 yo) in Dauin in the construction site of the resort of a good friend. Him and his workmates accepted to be taken in picture.
We will go back next month to meet them again for the construction of bamboo bungallow. :)
The resort name is "la tortue, Diving center" and promises to be extremely nice specially for the divers in the Negros. :)
Dauin, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
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And the fog came at last. We went back to the old dock and took some shots last night, in the first decent mist of this winter.
Explore #316 on 27th November 2009
The 25 de Abril Bridge is a suspension bridge connecting the city of Lisbon, capital of Portugal, to the municipality of Almada on the left (south) bank of the Tagus river. It has a total length of 2,277 metres, making it the 46th longest suspension bridge in the world.
From its inauguration in 6 August 1966 up to 1974, the bridge was named Salazar Bridge (Ponte Salazar), after Portuguese Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar, who ordered its construction. After the Carnation Revolution, which overthrew the remnants of Salazar's regime, the bridge was renamed for April 25, the date of the revolution. It is also commonly called the Tagus River Bridge.
Later changes had to be made due to the rapid increase in population. In the 1990s, a fifth car lane was added, and in 1999, a lower deck, used as a railway track, which was planned since the beginning, was finally built. Today, the upper deck carries six car lanes while the lower deck carries a double track railway, electrified at 25 kV AC.
From the late 19th century, there had been proposals to build a bridge across the Tagus. In 1929, the idea advanced when the Portuguese engineer and entrepreneur, António Bello, requested a government concession for a railway crossing between Lisbon and Montijo (where the Vasco da Gama Bridge, the second bridge serving Lisbon, was later built in 1998). As a result, the Minister of Public Works, Duarte Pacheco, created a commission in 1933 to analyse the request. The commission reported in 1934, and proposed building a road and rail bridge. Bids were obtained, but the proposal was subsequently put aside in favor of a bridge crossing the river at Vila Franca de Xira, 35 kilometres north of Lisbon.
In 1953, a new government commission started work and, in 1958, recommended building the bridge, choosing the southern anchor point adjacent to the recently built monument to Christ the King (Cristo-Rei). In 1959, the international invitation to tender for the project received four bids. In 1960, the winner was announced as a consortium headed by the United States Steel Export Company, which had also submitted a bid in 1935. The American School of Lisbon was founded largely to educate the children of the American engineers brought to Portugal to work on the construction of the bridge.
Construction began on 5 November 1962. Forty-five months later, six months ahead of schedule, the bridge was inaugurated on 6 August 1966. Presiding at the ceremony was the President of Portugal, Admiral Américo Thomaz. Also present were the Prime-Minister, António de Oliveira Salazar, and the Patriarch of Lisbon, Cardinal Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira. The bridge was named Salazar Bridge (Ponte Salazar), after Prime Minister Salazar.
United States Steel International Inc., based in New York, was prime contractor for the bridge. Morrison-Knudsen of Portugal Ltd., an American firm based in Boise, Idaho, was U.S. Steel's principal associate. Morrison-Knudsen had previously worked on the San Francisco Bay Bridge. The bridge was designed by Steinman, Boynton, Gronquist and London of New York, and Tudor Engineering Company of San Francisco. The steel was imported from the US. Four workers lost their lives, out of a total of 3,000 who worked on the site. Construction took a total of 2,185,000 man-hours of work. The total cost of the bridge came to 2.2 billion Portuguese escudos, or US$32 million (US$225 million in 2011 adjusted for inflation).
Soon after the Carnation Revolution in 1974, the bridge was renamed the 25 de Abril Bridge, the day the revolution had occurred. A symbol of those times was captured on film, with citizens removing the large brass letters spelling "Salazar" from one of the main pillars of the bridge and painting a provisional "25 de Abril" in its place.
The upper platform, running 70 m above water, had four car lanes, two in each direction, with a dividing guardrail. On 23 July 1990, the guardrail was removed and a fifth, reversible lane was created. On 6 November 1998, the side walls were extended and reinforced to make space for the present six lanes. Cars crossing the bridge make a peculiar hum because the two inner lanes are made of metallic grating rather than asphalt to minimize aerodynamic forces by means of pressure equalization.
Since 30 June 1999, the lower platform has carried a double track railway. To accommodate that, the bridge underwent extensive structural reinforcements, including a second set of main cables, placed above the original set, and the main towers were increased in height. The railway had been part of the initial design, but was eliminated for economy, so the initial structure was lightened. The original builder American Bridge Company was called again for the job, performing the first aerial spinning of additional main cables on a loaded, fully operational suspension bridge.
Traffic soon increased well beyond predictions, and has remained at maximum capacity despite the enlargement from four to six lanes, the addition of the railway, and the building of a second bridge serving Lisbon, the Vasco da Gama Bridge. A third bridge has been on and off government plans for some time, but the idea has been dropped presently, due to Portugal's budget constraints.
I think these are being built fast, nut this is not the year for such thoughts.
Harford County wandering
For a sheltered walkway at the Telok Blangah Community Club to the nearby market at Telok Blangah Drive.
A hot and cloudy day as the hoarded construction works of a subway progressed. The clouds were beautiful with a public housing estate as background.
Dhagpo Kagyu Ling （དà¾à½‚ས་པོ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་གླིང་ Tăbù gájÇ” lÃn 塔布噶举林） est un centre bouddhiste tibétain de la lignée Kagyupa basée en Dordogne (France) à Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère.
Photo du 8 septembre 2012.
L'institut de Dhagpo Kagyu Ling en construction le 8 septembre 2012 à St Léon-sur-Vézère en Dordogne a été inauguré le 13 juin 2013 par Shamar Rinpoché.
Voir la vidéo www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8ix25Fq194
During this project they repainted the bridge supports black. I'm going to miss the old green, it melded well with all the trees around it.
I feel like I’ve been in a construction zone for months. I made it a goal to get the house ready for winter, with some significant work required. Old roof torn off, new roof installed. Check. Old gutters replaced. Check. Exterior of entire house re-painted. Check. Big leaky windows in front room replaced . . . hello? Hello? No – they’ve been ordered for months. Supply chain issues. It’s starting to get cold at night and there’s a draft. Time to get on the phone again tomorrow and do my project management thing. Again. It's been a long summer.
For We’re Here! where the theme is Creative Tabletop Photography.