View allAll Photos Tagged constructions
The picture shows the different forms of cuprite crystallization. The presented specimen comes from Old Dominion Mine in Arizona. In my work, among others, I deal with the study of mineralogy of copper deposits in Poland and historical locations around the world.
Courtesy of Mr. Piotr Kenis , PORT Sp. z o.o.
Image Details
Instrument used: Quanta SEM
Magnification: 1,862x
Horizontal Field Width: 223µm
Voltage: 15kV
Spot: 3,0
Working Distance: 12,9
Detector: BSED
Another construction perched on the side of Cumbre del sol. I always like to come up here when I'm over in Spain....its forever changing with new construction. It did slow down after the recession but seems to be in full swing again.
Its been a while since I managed to get the camera out ! terrible year with health but hopefully turned a corner now.
The Marina, Dubai. UAE. None of this existed 2 years ago.
They are building a city from scratch down here. It's a crazy sight...
Generally I found the quality of the architecture in Dubai to be very poor, the attitude seems to be to get the buildings up as quickly as possible, and with as many bells and whistles as possible; "Look at me! Look at me!" they all seem to scream...
In fairness, the standards of construction seem high, but the quality of design is lacking; which is a common failing when speed is the main concern of developers.
This one's been Explored
This image is 7 photos merged with Microsoft's Windows Live Gallery
Memorial coal mine park, Bibai, Hokkaido Visited on snowshoes. Pentax MZ-M ( this one of the smallest SLR never gives up in low temperature ) , EBC Fujinon 135mm F3.5+ Rayqual adopter , Fujiflm Minicopy HR2, exposed as ISO 40, developed with H&W control ( 20Deg.C. 14 minutes ), scanned with Plustek OpticFilm8100 + VueScan, edited with GIMP. Bigger sizes: www.flickr.com/photos/threepinner/53458140176/sizes/ to 9901 × 6774 pixeles compatible. Learn DIY development and upgrade to film !
It was very late in the day but the fellows from Grocon let me take this.
Sadly the original was awful and my post processing is not much better.
A decorative front on a Givenchy store while construction goes on behind it.
Note that while the garbage can is on the sidewalk, the safety cone is actually part of the posted image.
Constructed from uncut wooden sticks from Outshine frozen fruit bars and connected with Titebond III wood glue. Octagonal shapes/geometry drawn with CAD program and printed to use as pattern for precise placement of sticks. Size is 20" x 20" x 8". Painting/color (is any) to be determined.
Construction begins at The Lorton Reformatory. Buildings will be adapted and repurposed for residential and commercial use to create Liberty–a modern and vibrant community hub in the heart of Lorton, Virginia. Liberty is located 25 miles from Washington, D.C. and 35 miles from Fredericksburg, Virginia.
thelibertylife.com
Aerial view from lower West Side with new World Trade Center's Twin Towers (fore) against background of Manhattan.
Construction of the new I-405/WA522 interchange in Bothell, Washington.
Camera: Kodak Bantam Special
Lens: Kodak Ektar 45mm f/2
Film: un-perforated ORWO UN54
Developer: Beerenol (Rainier Beer).
August 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the construction of the CN Tower’s “working platform”.
For those who saw and experienced the construction of the tower, this working platform was one of the iconic fixtures of the tower from August 1974 through to August 1975 when it was finally dismantled and lowered to the ground. However, with it being covered over with safety nets and without any “public media relations” to explain what was going on with the tower’s construction, most Torontonians were perplexed or knowingly confused about what this “working platform” was used for. For myself, I always felt that it hid a portion of the tower which was actively under construction and would one day emerge from its cocoon to form a key aspect of the SkyPod. All of this, of course, was incorrect, and hence why this collage and explanation was created.
The “working platform” (as we will generally call it) had multiple purposes to the engineers of the CN Tower:
1) First and foremost, it would be used as a cradle to hold the 12 steel brackets which were to be hoisted from the ground level up to the 1120ft level of the tower.
2) Second, it contained the concrete wooden forms which encased the 12 steel brackets. The forms were mainly built on the ground and hoisted up to the 1120ft level along with the 12 steel brackets.
3) Third, once the temporary wooden floor of the working platform was completed in September 1974, it would be used as a base to pour the concrete floor of the outdoor observation level.
4) And fourth, after the concrete for the floor and brackets were poured, the working platform would be lowered 50ft to aid as a true “working platform” for construction people to access and work on the underside of the outdoor observation level (the “communication” levels 1 and 2, where the inflated, circular white radome can presently be seem).
As shown in a prior construction collage, the 12 brackets were raised from the ground level up to the 1120ft level between August 6 and 11 1974. The brackets were then connected to the tower, and leveled, using “dvidags” between August 17 and 30.
Thereafter, during August, the sections were connected together by the steelworkers via trusses (as seen in the upper left image of this collage). Long wood joists, then plywood, was laid down across the trusses to form the floor of the working platform.
Concrete was then poured into the wooden forms, and around the 12 huge steel beams, within and under the working platform (hidden behind the safety nets) to form the 12 triangle brackets seen today from below the SkyPod. Additional wooden forms were also installed to allow the creation of the walls of the poured-concrete “service tunnel” of level 1, ending on September 27. As a small historical note, the one & only person to die on the job was John Austin who was killed by a flying piece of plywood on the ground on October 2 during an unusually windy night.
The concrete floor of the outdoor observation level was poured in pie-shaped wedges throughout October 1974, using the working platform as the horizontal forms for the concrete pours. This can be seen in the lower-left image of the collage.
As an aspect of the tower’s construction that may have been overlooked by most or all Torontonians, the working platform was dislodged from its poured concrete (after a week of hitting the forms with sledge hammers!) and lowered 50ft where it remained until August 1975 (as shown in the lower right image of the collage). This important phase of the tower’s construction was not well documented in the media nor newspapers of the day so it was easily overlooked in the history books. The lowering occurred between Nov 2 and 8 1974. The platform was first lowered 20ft where it was used to pour the floor of level 1 then lowered another 30ft to clear the brackets (which were 45ft vertical).
The lower right image of the collage is an excellent photo of all of the work explained above. In the lower portion of the image, the “working platform” was all temporary and would be dismantled in 1975. The upper portion of the image remains as part of the SkyPod today. The floor is where the outdoor observation level is today. Under the floor are levels 1 and 2 where the communication dishes are presently shrouded in a white circular radome. The 12 concrete brackets were created by the wooden forms which remained within the working platform.
Once this critical and important phase of the tower was completed in November 1974, the “real work” could begin on erecting the steel framework of the SkyPod by CANRON.