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In Hong Kong, surprisingly large structures are constructed using Bamboo scaffolding. Bamboo is a naturally produced, renewable, and sustainable product. I wonder if this is a glimpse of future building products?
Scaffolding platform seen in a skip being delivered to a house being renovated. (fake hdr) I liked the blue-bottle colour of the fresh metal.
Phenomenal, this. Everyone was taking pictures of the masonry inside the Sagrada Familia, but this was the real revelation - the huge mesh of scaffolding holding the thing upright. Stunning.
I think these are parts of a building scaffolding, but I was just snapping of the last two pictures quickly as I had dropped my poor Holga, making the lens get stuck all the way in. I thought the focus would be way off, but it had actually just stuck on infinity.
Holga 120N with Kodak Ektachrome 400 xproed.
Street artist Banksy curated a gallery of subversive and satirical pieces based on theme parks. The gallery was located at Tropicana, itself a dismal shadow of its former self, a lido on the coast of the Severn Estuary at Weston-Super-Mare. Tropicana itself was closed around the turn of the 21st century, and has fallen into disrepair since. The installation was assembled largely in secret.
My favourite things to photograph all in one shot ... stairs, corrguated fence, scaffolding, sky. This is the back part of the pushup building going up on Henley Beach Road.
Taken with iPhone 4S.
"Urban Umbrella", New York City's New Scaffolding Design. The new scaffolding design called "Urban Umbrella," winner of the city's urbanSHED International Design Competition, made its Manhattan street debut the other day at 100 Broadway in Lower Manhattan. Urban Umbrella was created by Agencie Group designers Andres Cortes, Young-Hwan Choi and Sarrah Khan.
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As former chairman of the Trust it was my fortunate opportunity to be invited to see the renovation work going on at the lighthouse. I am very impressed. David and Barbara Shaw and their excellent team of builders are doing a fantastic job and its going to look great when its finished.
Everything is getting replaced,outer deck wall, deck, joists, balconies, windows, doors...which is why I will be broke from now on.
I'm having a new central heating boiler installed and, as the fitter has had to work on the flat roof, scaffolding had to be installed first.
The colorful ends of scaffolding parts are stacked in Lauttasaari, Helsinki.
View on black: decluttr
Scaffolding pieces lying on the ground disassembled. For repairing the historic facade of the Old Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C.
But I found this little skully....I think he has wings, but I wouldn't know, thanks scaffolding.
Hidden away behind other buildings is one of the gems of Edinburgh's Old Town, the Kirk of the Greyfriars: also known as the Greyfriars Tolbooth and Highland Kirk, or just simply Greyfriars Kirk.
Churches are usually amongst the easiest of buildings to find, announcing their presence with a tower or steeple. Not so Greyfriars Kirk, and as a result finding it takes a little detective work. Your starting point should be the circular stone tower of the beautiful new Museum of Scotland building. Looking across the road to its west you see a pub, Greyfriars Bobby's Bar. To the left of the pub as you look at it is a passageway. It leads into Greyfriars Kirkyard.
The Kirk itself is a beautifully restored yellowish harled barn of a building, sitting amid a surprisingly large space to have been so successfully hidden away in the heart of the Old Town.
Greyfriars was the first church to be built in Edinburgh after the Reformation of 1560, and was built on land granted by Mary Queen of Scots, previously the property of the Franciscan convent in the Grassmarket (hence the name Greyfriars). Building started in 1602, using stone reclaimed from a disused Dominican convent elsewhere in the city, and the kirk opened for business on Christmas Day, 1620.
Greyfriars has an important place in Scottish history. In 1638 the National Covenant was signed here, sparking a series of conflicts that were to last for nearly half a century including, arguably, the English Civil War and certainly the "killing time" of the latter half of the 1600s
In 1679 the Wars of the Covenant returned to Greyfriars, when the South Yard of the kirkyard was used as a temporary prison for 1200 Covenanters awaiting trial. This must have been a remarkably grim prison, shared with the mausoleums that line both sides of the yard, but it is hard to see how it could have been an especially secure one.
Elsewhere in the kirkyard is the Martyrs Monument, erected in 1709 in memory of the Covenanters killed in the 1600s. The rest of the kirkyard contains one of the best collections anywhere of monuments going back to the 1600s. But it is a more recent grave that is one of the most visited in the kirkyard. This is the grave of John Gray, who was an Edinburgh policeman who died of tuberculosis on 15 February 1858 and was buried here. He had a dog, a Skye Terrier called Bobby, and for the following 14 years, until the dog's own death in 1872, Bobby kept watch over John Gray's grave. Hence the name of the pub next to the kirkyard entrance. And hence the statue of a dog in front of the pub.
The interior of Greyfriars Kirk is beautiful and spacious. The church has had an accident prone history, and as a result much of what you see inside is younger than you might expect. For example Greyfriars originally had a tower at its west end. However, the town council used it as a gunpowder store, and in 1718 the inevitable happened. When the west end of the church was rebuilt, the tower was omitted, though space was provided for two separate congregations.
In 1845 fire destroyed much of the older part of the church and badly damaged the newer part. The rebuilding took until 1857 to complete, and included the first addition of stained glass windows to any Scottish parish church since the Reformation nearly three hundred years earlier. Robert Louis Stevenson's 1897 observations on Greyfriars in Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes can be read here.
It was only with a major restoration between 1931 and 1938 that the two halves of Greyfriars Kirk were reunited under a magnificent new ceiling of Californian redwood.