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Went hunting for the yellow helmets of the construction workers. Not spotting any, though, these temporary yellow workers' huts and the yellow crane will have to do.
The regeneration work of the Pier Hill area in progress here. On the far left of the photograph are the original railings from the days of when this was called Royal Hill.
W 46th and 5th Avenue in Manhattan - a couple of blocks from Time Square. A modest little construction project.
Back at the construction site in Jordbro. This was a quarry last year and a forest two years ago. One of a few construction sites around Haninge that I visit with a camera every now and then.
2013-03, two construction workers from the Kasungu region (Malawi) painting a building.
Country : Malawi
Date : 2013-03
Copyright : Marcel Crozet /
construction site Judlau artwork artist painting drawing
TRIBECA — When Dianne Talan looks at the massive water main project that is tearing up her block of Chambers Street, she doesn't see dirt and inconvenience. She sees art.
Talan, a painter who has lived on Chambers Street for more than 30 years, has spent the past 10 months covering the mesh construction fence with bright, whimsical portraits of the workers and their heavy machinery.
She started doing it without permission, but more recently she's received the city's blessing.
Her mural now stretches more than 1,000 square feet — and it's still growing.
"I wanted the public to be able to see [the construction] in a different way, rather than just complaining about it," Talan, 65, said recently from her apartment, which doubles as her studio.
"If you can take the mundane and elevate it…it makes life better."
Talan started painting the mural secretly last October, surprising city officials and baffling construction workers, who noticed new additions each morning when they arrived at work.
"We were a little perturbed," said Rodney Hew, 42, a supervisor with Judlau Contracting.
"We didn't know who was doing it and how they were doing it. But it brightened up the place."
Talan worked late at night, dodging cars and buses as she balanced on a traffic barrier, carefully painting scenes of the construction site and the surrounding neighborhood such as jackhammer-wielding workers and the lighted subway entrance on the corner.
"My husband said, 'You'd better not do that. You're going to get in trouble,'" Talan recalled with a grin. "So, I didn't tell him."
Talan continued her guerrilla painting through November and December, braving the cold to continue decorating panel after panel.
Eventually, staff at the city Department of Design and Construction started asking neighbors if they knew who was doing the painting, and a friend mentioned Talan's name.
"They were worried I was going to get killed," Talan said. "But I knew what I was doing. I've been living here forever."
Talan was afraid DDC would make her stop working. Instead the agency did just the opposite: Starting in January, the agency began offering her a roll of the green mesh fencing, so she could create her murals in the warmth and safety of her own apartment and deliver them to the site as she finished them.
"We're glad to work with local artists like Dianne Talan, providing space on Chambers Street for pedestrians and TriBeCa residents to enjoy her artwork while we work on upgrading the infrastructure of lower Manhattan," a DDC spokesman said in a statement.
So far, Talan has painted a total of 28 panels, each 10 feet wide and 4 or 5 feet tall. She has at least three more blank spaces to fill, and then she hopes to begin redoing some of her earlier paintings, which look like crude sketches compared to the lush later works that she created in her studio.
Talan is not getting paid for her work, but she said she is thrilled to have the chance to create art that thousands of people see every day.
She also hopes to sell some of the panels once the water main construction project finishes in another two years, but it is unclear if she owns the paintings or if the city does.
Now that the secret behind the mural is out, Talan knows all the construction workers by name, and she often stops by with cookies and dark chocolate to thank them for being her muses.
"At first I thought she was absolutely insane," said Carl Balzofiore, 30, a Judlau worker from Queens.
"Now I've met her, and she is insane, but in a good way."
Nick Quintela, 36, a foreman from New Jersey, said he is surprised anyone would want to paint a construction site, but he's glad Talan does.
"It's beautiful," Quintela said of the mural. "It gives a little culture to the place."
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Just in case you didn't understand the comment on the previous pic - the brick building in that one is now on the left and we're looking north across Southwark St. towards the Bankside 4 development - now re-branded and marketed as "Neo-Bankside", a luxury housing development (designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour) with apartments selling at £1m - £6.5m.
When Tate Modern (see its tower is peeping behind the street sign on the right) opened in the year 2000 the land on which this development stands was mainly run-down commercial and industrial buildings dating from the C19 and the building on the extreme right (the Blue Fin Building) was still a 1950s office block housing the Ministry of Transport. Over the succeeding 13 years, thanks primarily to the impact of Tate Modern and the Jubilee line extension which runs nearby, the area has been transformed - but not without cost.
When planning permission was first granted for this development in 2007 the developer agreed to provide over 8,000 sq.m of affordable housing "off-site" (ie. in other parts of Southwark) and 34 affordable "shared equity" units within the development itself. Construction began in Jan. 2009 months after the Lehman Bros collapse and the takeover of HBOS (the funding bank for the development) by Lloyds. However development and marketing of the site has continued throughout the subsequent recession and the development is now in its final stages. Block E (under construction on the left) is the final phase of the development.
However in late 2011 the developer returned to Southwark Council and the GLA with a proposal to vary the terms of the original planning permission. He requested that the requirement for 34 affordable housing units on site be dropped because it was unlikely that they could make them affordable by any sensible definition of the term. Southwark Council agreed to this, with the proviso that the developer offered funding for at least the equivelent number of units to be provided off site. The sum final agreed for this was £9m, which the local authority hopes will fund the provision of 44 housing units. But up to now the developer himself has only managed to find sites to build half the amount of off site affordable housing required in the original planning permission. In addition the developer sought and was granted permission to change the use of Block E from residential to office use.
It's not surprising that local community groups now wonder if it will ever be possible for local residents doing ordinary jobs (or having no jobs at all) to afford to live in these areas in future.
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Construction is underway at the Oak Lawn Commons Mall for a new restaurant called, Shake Shack.
Oak Lawn Commons
4071 W. 95th Street (US Rt 12/20
Oak Lawn, Illinois
Cook County, USA.
View on one of the most popular construction sites in Germany, the "Elbphilharmonie" in Hamburg. The construction started in April 2007 and the whole project will cost about 780 Million Euro. After several revisions, the official opening of the building is calculated for spring 2017.