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35 Examples Of Amazing Infrastructure Every Engineer Appreciates, As Shared In This Group
Some photos draw you in and don’t want to let you go, so you spend entire minutes (that feel like small eternities) sitting transfixed, with your eyes on the screen. That’s exactly the feeling we get when we look at the pics featured on this subreddit that’s entirely dedicated to showing off the beauty of infrastructure. After all, (and let’s be cheesy here for a moment) infrastructure doesn’t just connect us together physically—it also connects our hearts through the mutual adoration of aesthetics.
And while the internet watchdogs might censor the full name of this particular online community, what they can’t hide is the love that we feel for beautiful and artistic photos. We’ve collected some of the best photos from the ‘Infrastructure’ subreddit, the home to nearly 225k members, for you to enjoy. So scroll down, upvote your fave photos, and let us know if these images have seduced you away from your (and my) true love—cute cat pics.
According to anthropologist Margaret Mead, however, the first sign of civilization in a culture isn't something that we make (like fishhooks or clay pots); it's how we act towards others. Specifically, our compassion.
I had a chat about infrastructure challenges and problems with an expert from Sweden with a background in urban planning who preferred to remain anonymous because of the sensitive nature of her work. She told Bored Panda that these challenges depend on whether or not we're looking to build an entirely new settlement or expand the infrastructure of an existing city. What's more, the expert touched upon the fact that we should keep in mind the balance between service reach and health risk factors such as pollution, and how the focus on car-centric infrastructure in the United States and Canada can be seen as a failure. Read on for the full interview.
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A1 Highway Ecoduct, The Veluwe, Netherlands
Susan Widomski 3 years ago
They are building more and more of them, so wildlife can safely cross the expanse.
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Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
This is wonderful for allowing the passage of animals without getting on the roads.
Krank Jorum 4 years ago
For everybody claiming to know these structures are not effective, think about how the Netherlands look like from above. It's one of the most densely populated countries. Highways, railroads, extremely intensive agriculture, cities and towns everywhere. And of course, nature too. But the forests are only small, so the animals get only a very small habitat. These structures connect the patches of forest to give wild life a much larger range and hence sustain larger and more diverse and healthy populations of wild life. Ideally, the most important pieces of nature can be connected throughout the country and extend into our neighbouring countries.
Gregg V 4 years ago
If the Netherlands want to spend $1 million plus per animal plus signs directing animals that can read to the bridge - let them. Just cause it sounds nice, does not mean it works. Common sense says it's not worth millions to save an animal or two - save a human or two instead - fences on the highway instead! Money better spent.
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Gregg V 4 years ago
Stupid waste of money - millions spent on a few animals it may save. Hey I got a great idea lets make hydrogen cars - oops - it doesn't sell or works. Toyota just cancelled it's test cars. It is a tax payer money losing option. If you want some progressive and animal loving activists to fund this like PETA - then I'm all for you and your activists to spend your money to save million dollar animals. Don't waste my money.
Load More Replies... Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Too bad we cant educate more countries to keep our greenery where it should or could be.
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Aqueduct Veluwemeer, Netherlands
Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
Took me a moment to understand this one, I was looking for a drawbridge.
H Edwards 4 years ago
The Netherlands, where half the time you are below seal level but still on dry land. It can be disconcerting.
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Luna Lovegood 4 years ago
For anyone confused- the road goes UNDER the water in a tunnel, allowing boats to pass over
Yvonne Blau 4 years ago
Thank you! I didn't see it and my brain was starting to hurt :D
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Lynda Nesbitt 4 years ago
So-the road actually continues underwater as a tunnel, is that correct?
François Carré 4 years ago
Only Dutch people can show such confidence towards the fact most of their country is below sea level.
John L 4 years ago
This current "InterGlacial" is at its tail end, and soon it will be well above sea level. Remember, the planet is still in the middle of a 2.58my ice age(Pleistocene)
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Isidien Gudmundsdottir 4 years ago
I remember the look on my wife's face when we encountered one when we were visiting my family in The Netherlands: " Is that a boat above us? " It was a huge sailboat she saw. For me it was a normal thing since I lived there but I can imagine her surprise.
Lesley Robinson 4 years ago
But how do the cars get to the other side?? Is there a tunnel?
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Jenn Zen 4 years ago
Ok, I'm a slow American, please don't judge me. Does the roadway go underneath the water at that breakpoint?
#3
Holland, Michigan's Downtown Has Heated Streets And Sidewalks That Melt Snow And Ice. The System Utilizes Wastewater From A Nearby Power Plant Which Circulates Through 120 Miles Of Plastic Piping Underneath The Pavement. It Can Melt An Inch Of Snow An Hour Even At 20 Degrees Fahrenheit
Pamela24 4 years ago
That's so cool! Reminds me how in Prague there is a swimming pool built close to the national Czech TV. They built them in a similar time and connected those two. Now the water for the pool is being heated by the excessive heat that the TV studios produce and those studios are cooled down by the cold water from the swimming pool. It's genius.
Anna Tuomisalo 4 years ago
We have this too in Helsinki for our biggest shopping street.
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Petra Christovová 4 years ago
That is neat. Probably much more ecological than covering everything with tons of technical salt.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
Washington State University has something similar. All of the campus housing is heated by steam radiators. The steam comes from the central plant on campus and runs under the sidewalks leading to the campus buildings. So it takes care of two issues in the winter...heating for the buildings and keeping the sidewalks free of snow and ice.
jleitner 4 years ago
Wastewater from a power plant is not sewage! It is usually clean fresh water that is dumped back into the lake or river from which it was first pumped to be used for cooling the power plant. Once it has been heated in the process it is of no more use to them and must be dumped, This makes use of it first. Plus, it cools it off before dumping it back into the body of water, which is much better for the native ecosystems. Win-win-win!
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According to the urban planning expert, the challenges that people face when building a new city include finding the right placement for the infrastructure, from large roads and power lines to power plants, water treatment plants, and more. The expert pointed out that it's all a balancing game where you have to place the infrastructure close enough to residential areas to increase the service reach, yet also keep it as far away as possible to reduce pollution, noise, and other factors that can cause health risks.
"The challenges associated with developing infrastructure for an existing city are similar yet even more complicated because an agreement is necessary with already-established residents. With all the aforementioned health factors, naturally, no one would be happy about hosting a facility nearby," the expert told Bored Panda.
"Technical problems, such as the quality of the soil and urban density of an area, are always challenging for laying pipes and cables required for services such as electricity, fiber optic internet, heating, sewerage, water, etc. Developing infrastructure often poses a challenge of balancing the installment and laying cost against the longevity and life cycle cost."
#4
Skytrain Inside Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore
Eva the Egg 4 years ago
I've been here before, there are restaurants down below this and upstairs there are indoor playground for kids, the whole experience there is breathtaking!
Hermione 4 years ago
And an outdoor swimming pool. Kids get a workout between flights. Should be compulsory at every airport!
Load More Replies... Mazer 4 years ago
Now if we could just embrace what we have outdoors nature wise instead of destroying it that be awesome!!!
Death Metal Kitty 4 years ago
Maybe if you did a little research to understand the restrictions and why this would not be feasible.
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Myriam Ickx 4 years ago
I was there once for 6 hours in transit between two planes, it was not enough to discover all there was to see and try amazing foods at different little restaurants - Japanese, Malaysian, Chinese, Indian, you name them! It was heaven!
#5
Sart Canal Bridge, Belgium
SentimentAndBadJokes 4 years ago
I literally dreamed about this when I was little!
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Why not the totally insane Ronquieres inclined plane, if you're going for south belgian canal projects?!
Dark Side of the Loom 4 years ago
What I was going to say! In summer when there's the music festival, it's just amazing to be in the crowd below the bridge, and see the boats passing by and waving to the people in the audience!
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A Cell Phone Tower Disguised As Cactus
Anna roberts 4 years ago
Actually the "bullet holes" are houses for cactus wrens
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Sharon Dean 4 years ago
Here in San Diego they put up palm trees....uh fake palm trees.........
naimah yianni 4 years ago
You will probably find that there is more than one reason why the companies like to disguise them
The Swedish urban planning expert highlighted to Bored Panda a couple of examples of what badly-designed infrastructure looks like: freeways and stroads (no, no, that's not a typo! Stroads are roads that are too wide and fast to be safe for pedestrian safety and too narrow and slow for efficient car movement). "It’s a widely accepted fact that the late 20th-century approach to mobility, mostly realized in North America, roads being catered to cars and not people, has been a great failure," she said.
"It is completely detrimental to the vibrancy of city life, as wide and sidewalk-less freeways, and so-called stroads, make walking impossible as a means of travel from A to B around the urban area," she pointed out that this also negatively affects other modes of transportation like biking or using public transport. What's more, this leads to the overuse of private vehicles and increases safety risks.
#7
An Archipelago In Norway
Caroline Driver 4 years ago
Looks like an area in a computer game where the players can 'buy' houses to live in
Denny Cwiek 4 years ago
Water level changes would concern me. Doesn't look like it would take much to cover these islands with water.
Klas Klättermus 4 years ago
No need to worry. All other outer islands will break the waves in the archipelagio. The only natural disasters they have in Norway are landslides and too much oil (and money).
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Mo Poppins 4 years ago (edited)
I’ve heard that Scsndis are more introverted in their lifestyle practices, and this setup is PERFECT for those who wish they had enough space between them and their neighbor, yet still have the comforts and advantages of having them closeby. YOU GET YOUR OWN LITTLE ISLAND! 🏝 I guess you skate across the ice in the winter.
#8
Ecoducts, Railway, Highway, Roads, Walkways... In Breda, The Netherlands
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
I just love the way nature and progress are combined great forward thinkers looking back to nature.
#9
Shalu Leisure Landscape Trail, Taichung, Taiwan
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
This is a nice idea to turn the ugly underside of an elevated highway into something more tolerable.
Whawhawhatsis 4 years ago
Under one stretch of elevated highway in New Orleans, a bunch of young people built a skate park. It's in an area devastated by Katrina, with a lot of infrastructure just never being built back, so it's providing a healthy activity for a lot of kids and teenagers when there's literally *nothing* else available. I love creative uses of wasted space like that!
Sharon Dean 4 years ago
I'm thinking of all those elevated train sections in NYC, miles and miles and miles of asphalt and cement and not a tree in sight.........
Khadija Hammond 4 years ago
I wish we could do that to all of them. Plus connect to the wilderness in such a way that the animal kingdom could come and go without being splattered all over the road!
Anthropologist Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a thighbone that had healed after being broken. That's because it shows that somebody stayed together with the person who broke their femur and helped them recover. In Mead's opinion, civilization starts there because it shows the contrast between human beings and the rest of the animal kingdom which lives by the law of the jungle where it's survival of the fittest all the way through.
That's not to say that animals aren't compassionate toward each other (they are), but it takes around six weeks of rest for a femur to heal without modern medicine and that's a very long time to spend with a wounded member of the pack who can't feed itself, contribute to the group, or protect itself from predators.
#10
Viaduc De Millau - France
Joe Reaves 4 years ago
There is nothing in this world that would get me on that.
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Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
Rather than winding down into a beautiful valley and back up, the engineers decided to simply build a bridge over the valley, preserving the valley's natural beauty, and creating this magnificent work of art.
Xan Maranya 4 years ago
The bridge crosses a large river valley and was built to solve a major traffic problem for vehicles going from Paris to Spain.
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Seán Baron 4 years ago
Designed by Sir Norman Foster (he who designed The Gherkin in London) and is situated in the Tarn Valley.
A_BadlyDrawnBearPic 4 years ago
*deep breath* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa
#11
A Partial View Of The 30km Long Houtribdijk Dam In The Netherlands. Again, Leave It To The Dutch!
Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
From this perspective, it seems barely high enough to keep back the water.
Teresa Groth 4 years ago
I agree stunning, but my question is what happens in a terrible storm, has it ever been flooded?
Gregg Bender 4 years ago
Considering sea level rise, we might be well advised to retain the Dutch for advice...
Susan Widomski 3 years ago
These always make me nervous, like if I drive it and am expecting a tidal wave.
Khadija Hammond 4 years ago
That is unbelievable! Genius! I have always liked Dutch people. We can learn so much from them.
#12
A Village Settlement In Denmark
Black Pug Puppy 4 years ago
Just imagine someone asking where you live 'oh yeah I live in circle 3'
Sawdust 4 years ago
Yeah, hard to say exactly why, but something about it seems prison-like.
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Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
I'd plant forests in the interstices instead of grass that needs mowing.
Isabella K 4 years ago
Maybe the grass is needed as cow food? At least where i live it would work this way...
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Miss Cris 4 years ago (edited)
Waste of space. No trees. No forest. No services. Extremely ugly.
Xan Maranya 4 years ago
The idea behind these circles is to increase social interaction among those who rent the gardens. The Danish culture is by far more community oriented than the U.S..
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Your Cousin Vinny 4 years ago
There is a very interesting historical basis for this design. Do an internet search using the phrase, "village settlement in denmark" for explanations. They are much better than I can summarize here.
ROMEO CORRE 4 years ago
I've noticed there are no street or lamp poles. Does this place ever get dark at night?
Lara Verne 4 years ago
I'm not entirelly opossed to this idea, but I don't see any sidewalks, so walk through this village might be a little complicated.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Ugly and creepy. It looks like where the Stepford wives would live if they were poor.
The ‘Infrastructure’ subreddit, founded way back in 2011, is exclusively dedicated to (yup, you guessed it) pictures of infrastructure. From paved roads and other public transit to agriculture, freight, waste management, and water systems. And far more!
You’ve got bridges and tunnels! Sewers and electrical grids! Telecommunications and all the other physical interconnected systems that improve our lives.
Infrastructure encompasses all the marvels of human ingenuity and engineering that make living life far easier and all the things that we really don’t want to do without. Infrastructure is what keeps us worrying about first-world problems instead of how we’ll get water today when the local spring is ten miles away and goes through a pitch-black forest full of hungry wolves.
#13
Northern Lights From The Top Of The Mackinac Bridge
A B C 4 years ago
Same for me. Let's plan a trip to the arctic circle? :)
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Mohra Taylor 4 years ago
I’ve seen them a few times. They sometimes make a crackling noise, too.
William Mahoney 4 years ago
Knew nothing about them when got taste of it on vacation in New Hampshire as teen. Just heard cheering from cabins, lucky fluke in September on lake .
Patricia Kasprowski 4 years ago
Have seen them from this viewpoint many years ago. They are indeed breathtaking. Now live in Washington state and get to see them from here also, but the view from the bridge is far more open than from the Evergreen state.
#14
The Storseisundet Bridge In Norway
#15
Subsea Undergroundabout, Faroe Islands
Friday 4 years ago
I’d be distracted by how pretty it looks and probably run up the back of someone
Cynthia Marrs 4 years ago
I'm sure I'd get lost and take the wrong tunnel.
Load More Replies... Suzy the observer 4 years ago
Such beauty in a terrible place with an atrocious reputation for whale massacre.
Linda Robinett 4 years ago
I live in an area subject to earthquakes. I would be a bit bothered
Roberto Durante 4 years ago
just boycott this bloody island, killing every year thousand dolphin for a barbarian tradition when you are 18 and have to show you are an adult
The more you think about it, the more the term ‘infrastructure’ seems to touch. So while we’ve got hard infrastructure that we can touch and physically use like roads, we’ve also got soft infrastructure that isn’t as tangible but is still vital to the health and welfare of any local community.
Some examples of soft infrastructure can include our network of institutions that are responsible for our economy, public health, social order, and cultural standards. From law enforcement and emergency services to educational programs and even… parks and recreational facilities! These might be far harder to take a photo of, but they’re still essential to civilization. After all, roads and streets mean nothing if you don’t have people working to help each other in whatever way they can best apply their particular set of skills.
#16
Dudhasagar Falls (Sea Of Milk), Goa, India
karen snyder 4 years ago
The falls are incredible, but is that train bridge really an example of "Amazing Infrastructure?"
TropicalPanda 4 years ago
Well if you consider when where and why it was built, then yes, it was an infrastructure project. is it amazing? i'll leave it to your own subjectivity..
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Pattaya James 4 years ago
wikipedia: Dudhsagar Falls (lit. 'Sea of Milk') is a four-tiered waterfall located on the Mandovi River in the Indian state of Goa. It is 60 km from Panaji by road and is located on the Belgaum–Vasco da Gama rail route about 46 km east of Madgaon and 80 km south of Belagavi. Dudhsagar Falls is amongst India's tallest waterfalls with a height of 310 m (1017 feet) and an average width of 30 metres (100 feet). The falls is located in the Bhagwan Mahaveer Sanctuary and Mollem National Park among the Western Ghats. The waterfall is located in the state of Goa. The falls is a punctuation mark in the journey of the Mandovi River from the Western Ghats to Panjim where it meets the Arabian sea. The area is surrounded by deciduous forests with rich biodiversity. This waterfall is also known as Tambdi Surla to some of the local people. The falls are not particularly spectacular during the dry season but during the monsoon season, however, the falls are fed by rains and form a huge force of water
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
That water got to be rushing don that mountain at a hell of a speed.
Ahimsa Soul 4 years ago
Dreaming and saving up to visit all these places!
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Rudolph Furtado 4 years ago
Trekking to "DUDHSAGAR WATERFALLS" is the most adventurous extreme sport during the monsoon season in South India. Read my blog :- https://dudhsagarwaterfallstrek.blogspot.com/
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The Delta Works In The Netherlands, Consisting Of 13 Parts, Together Form The Largest Storm Surge Barrier In The World And Was Declared One Of The Seven Wonders Of The Modern World By The American Society Of Civil Engineers
Fred Van Der Zee 4 years ago
The nice thing is that, instead of building solid dykes, they uses sluices and storm surge barriers that can open, to preserve the natural habitat.
Rissie 4 years ago
No, it's because it's impossible to stop the flow of a river into the sea. Rerouting would be a tat bit too much. Even for us.
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Sharon Dean 4 years ago
Yes, the state authorities in Louisiana actually got smart enough to retain an engineer from the Netherlands to consult on work for the levees in New Orleans.....but of course only after that awful experience of Katrina.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
The Netherlands is going to need a lot more of these architectural wonders now that the sea level is rising due to climate change. Most of their land is below sea level already.
Rissie 4 years ago
It has never not been mostly beneath it. These locks are designed to keep a combination of storm and high water out. And they are designed as locks and removable barriers because they protect delta's. Also known as the points where rivers flow into the sea. A dike would not be possible. This has everything to do with the impossibility to block a constant supply of water that needs to go somewhere.
Load More Replies... Susan Widomski 3 years ago
I marvel at the idea of the folks that build these things - how do they manage every step of the way?
Roberto Durante 4 years ago
amazing construction and you can also visit the inside in one pilar
#18
Saint Petersburg Metro, Russia
Dave P 4 years ago
Just remember when Stalin had these built, over 9000 workers died during construction and were buried where they died. There are corpses under the both the St. Petersburg and Moscow Metros from the political slave laborers used
Lissa Madison 4 years ago
Probably more than 9000, but "buried where they died" sounds very unlikely. Roten meat and bones are very strange building material for metro basement.
Load More Replies... Khadija Hammond 4 years ago
This should make every American and every English person ashamed of themselves. Our subways in Europe and in the United States are filthy and crime ridden. At least when I see this I know that the Russians are lovers of art and beauty. And it makes me love them as a people.
Arran Walker 4 years ago
This seems more like fancy interior design than amazing infrastructure.
#19
Another Scale Of Infrastructure, These Salmon Stairs In Sweden
Onion rings like to make your breath smelly 4 years ago
ive never heard salmon jumping but when i think of it i just hear "boing boing boing"
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Electric Elevated Railway (Suspension Railway) , Wuppertal, Germany
steven mayes 4 years ago
I used to work in Woopietown as on of my colleagues called it. Was quite unnerving to have one of the trains flying above you if you were in your car and it was bearing down on you. Runs along the river so an excellent use of space.
Ray Heap 4 years ago
This was the one where an elephant jumped out of a moving car in 1950 weil-die-m...00b163.jpg 
Friday 4 years ago
Such a clever design that does not impact the flow of traffic (not everyone can utilise public transport).
J. F. 4 years ago
And this system was officialy opened at March 1st, 1901 - it's 120 years old by now. (Of course with modernizations through out)
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Picture Queen 4 years ago
I would be scared that it would come off the tracks & fall down onto everyone underneath
Simon Murray 4 years ago
There was a plan several years ago to build one of these over the river Liffey in Dublin, Ireland. We have a light rail system called the Luas, this was to be the Suas (Irish for up)
Emma Klein 4 years ago
The Tim Traveler did a video on this train https://youtu.be/9IFh6wFTJiQ
#21
Cykelslangen (The Bicycle Snake), Copenhagen, Denmark
Black Pug Puppy 4 years ago
Now I'm disappointed I thought a bicycle snake was a snake riding a bicycle
Carsten Petersen 4 years ago
There is a pun here as well, as "Cykelslange" also means bicycle hose in danish ;-)
Cathy Carey 4 years ago
This would take forever for me to get used to since I'm afraid of heights. It took me a couple months just to ride over the freeway overpass here with a high fence and guard rail. I might never get used to this type of thing with see-through fencing etc.
Teri Campisi 4 years ago
I'm with ya girl, I don't like heights either! Would rsther ride a bike than walk though!
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#22
Highway Interchange Near Tokyo
EmperorJVB 4 years ago
It doesn't look like a nightmare. It is a nightmare.
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Aunt Messy 4 years ago
Nope. Wrong. The GPS that taxis use there are precise down to about half a meter.
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Upstaged75 3 years ago
We have one like that near DC that they call the mixing bowl. It's hideous. At least you can be confused in lovely surroundings on this one. ;)
#23
Project Engineers Demonstrating The Cantilever Principles Of The Forth Bridge In Scotland, 1887
jleitner 4 years ago
Their arms are under tension (being stretched) by the weights, while the sticks are being compressed. It's the principle behind all trusses. You'll often see truss bridges where some members are heavy steel beams (for compression), while others are single or multiple links made of steel plates or cable (under tension).
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Linda Robinett 4 years ago
Good engineering makes structures that are pleasing to the eye as the Forth Bridge is
#24
Three Undergound Metro Lines Crossing Eachother At The Place De L'opéra In Paris
Daniele Tigli 4 years ago
It also has a very peculiar odor because it runs on tires, if I'm not wrong
Slune 4 years ago
Yes,you are so right! If you one inhaled the Metro scent,you will never forget it.
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Barbara Vandewalle 4 years ago
One of the most efficient transportation systems The diagrams/maps at each on / off station are easy to use.
Tora Wookiee Macaw 4 years ago
I can just picture The Phantom Of The Opera strolling by saying "don't mind me...." LOL!
#25
Brutalist Flats In Camden, London
Aunt Messy 4 years ago
It's clever design. Every unit gets sunlight for at least half the day - no towers blocking the sun. the pedway in the middle makes the sidewalk area safe for kids - no cars charging around. It looks like all of the units have good air flow as well, plus no one is sucking in car exhaust when they open their windows.
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Seán Baron 4 years ago
These flats are amazing. They're Council housing, so you don't need to sell half of your internal organs for them, the waiting list get into a flat is about 30 years, and yes, they're very nice inside, but because they're such iconic buildings, they're really nice outside. Especially as pretty much every balcony has plants in them.
MidnightSky 4 years ago
30 years lol. I and many others I known waited about 3-5 years...
Load More Replies... Dynein 4 years ago
The only defense I've heard about brutalist aesthetics is that the buildings are nicer on the inside.... I mean, there's plenty disagreements about what looks nice and what doesn't, but if even the supporters of a style don't consider it something they'd want to have on the inside of their home, why subject people to the sight at all...???
Bill Anderson 4 years ago
Sadly, a crime hotspot due to the maze-like design of the whole estate. Not a place to walk at night.a million escape routes for criminals and a policing nightmare...
Stephen Lyford 4 years ago
Some scenes from "The Kingsmen" were filmed here, or at one just like it.
#26
Gordon Dam In Tasmania, Australia
Donkey boi 4 years ago
The bottom part of the pic makes it look like a rollercoaster goes down it!
Iva Kazalova 4 years ago
This is making me feel ill and my legs are going weak, biggest nope of all the nopes🤮🤮🤮🤮
Pari Gilmour 4 years ago
Except it flooded one of the most unique natural wonders of the world.
#27
Botanical Garden In Madrid Atocha Train Statino
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
It's the disused Atocha terminal, not the 90s modern one that's in use. This is all shops and bars.
Brungilda 4 years ago
It is used and fully functional! I departed from there to Barcelona at 2014.
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Roundabout And Bicycle Bridge In The Netherlands
Otter 4 years ago
When I was in the Netherlands, several people said "Oh, you should rent a car and drive out into the countryside!". Looking at this makes me SO glad I didn't! Awesome photo, and I have no clue where the cars are supposed to go.
Krank Jorum 4 years ago
Don't let this photo or this discussion scare you. Traffic in the Netherlands is usually very well regulated.
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Sanne H. 4 years ago
The cycling viaduct is called “de snelbinder” and it’s located in Naaldwijk (not so far from Den Haag / Rotterdam). If you simply look at the signs and pick the correct lane, it’s really easy. Even less complicated than a regular roundabout.
Remi 4 years ago
Ja maar die andere verderop bij de McDonalds is echt een doolhof!
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Mindy Keys 4 years ago
I would have to pack a snack. Being a stupid American, even simple roundabouts confuse me to the point of exhaustion. I would never find my way round this one!
Grace Perez-Grafals 4 years ago
Man, the Netherlands has all their infrastructure figured out.
Lynne Stankard 4 years ago
Bit like the UK - but we don't supply bike bridges, that's such a cool idea. x
#29
Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol
Seán Baron 4 years ago
Isambard Kingdom Brunel has so many engineering feats to his name, bridges, ships and the first tunnel ever built under a body of water, which he built with his father in London.
Gregory Gibbs 4 years ago
Brunel's design for the CSB was virtually unworkable. It was completely redesigned by by William Henry Barlow and John Hawkshaw after his death.
Load More Replies... Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
Gorgeous. I'm a huge fan of the Brooklyn Bridge, but this predates it AND is even more stylish!
#30
Bhumibol Bridge, Bangkok, Thailand
#31
Solar Power Plants In The United States Photographed By Bernhard Lang
Aria Whitaker 4 years ago (edited)
To be fair, the US is HUGE and this is just one power plant area in one city of one state. There are many, many others...some as big or even more massive than your "lake" in Chile!
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Mazer 4 years ago
Boooooooo. I swear to god we need to watch more Sesame Street because people need to learn how to share. If we put solar panels on every single home and put up a small windmills (Yes they make them available to put on your home), We wouldn’t need to see all of this beautiful land destroyed
s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago
That is a wonderful thought, but you must also consider how much land is destroyed in mining for the metals to create these, plus how much power is required to do that, and how much pollution the pruduction of these costs.
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memyselfandI 4 years ago
I saw that! We were on a long road trip, and passed by big towers with bright lights at the top, and we were trying to figure out what in the world they were. It took a while before we figured out they were solar farms. The light at the top is a container of sorts filled with salt, and the heat reflected from the solar panels boils it to make energy. If I’m not mistaken, those are somewhere around the salt flats in the Utah area. I don’t remember exactly. I think the line through the middle of the picture is the road we drove on.
Ja'Nice Christine H. 4 years ago
Gee, one for the US. Thanks to the GOP and not helping pass the infrastructure bill so we can build new awesome highways and bridges too, and create more jobs. Let's build!
Craig Reynolds 4 years ago
Mirrors harness the Sun to focus on a tower that keeps salt molten to boil water for a steam turbine. All birds that attempt to fly through there are called "roasters" as they burst into flames. I guess simply using that same area to directly produce electricity directly from solar panels and not kill wildlife wasn't simple enough! Reminds me of nuclear reactors! We use the most powerful and dangerous form of energy release to simply boil water...
#32
The Beipanjiang Bridge, Spanning The Nizhu River In China At A Height Of 565 Metres
Martin Kaine 4 years ago
C'mon Wendy! I'm sure there is never any wind as you drive over this bridge.
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Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
Look at the cliffs below- they are being cultivated-that is really scary engineering!
#33
Pont De Normandie, France
Anne 4 years ago
Unless you are stuck behind a truck going slower and slower and you only have a tiny one liter engine car and you need the speed to make it.. :)
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Anna roberts 4 years ago
My 16 yr. old was like nope, drop me off and pick me up on your way back. Heights scare the crap out of him
Roberto Durante 4 years ago
I crossed this one amazing experience, not driving up so fast, my car is 29 years old patrol Nissan, the way down, I probably for long time could use the fourth gear LOL
#34
My Developing Country Of Georgia Has Been Renewing Its 20th Century Rust Oven Fleet, With An Armada Of Brand New Electric Buses. Pedestrian Life Just Got Easier
Monika Lachova 4 years ago
yeah, that is the very exact feeling when travelling in the summer by overcrowded bus without air condition + even more heated where the engine is...
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Who else thinks the castle in the last pic is more amazing then those buses?
Khadija Hammond 4 years ago
That is great! I want to visited your beautiful country. I still remember the lady there who takes care of cats. She had a beautiful little shop.
Anna roberts 4 years ago
Buses with no AC. School busses here in US, used to be like that with windows that were broke and would not open. No AC in schools either, at least In Ohio where I lived. It was awful
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Sunshine Sunshine 4 years ago
If you ever het the change go visit Georgia. Is a beautiful beautiful country.
#35
The Tuned Mass Damper Of Taipei 101 Skyscraper. A Tuned Mass Damper Is A Device Mounted In Structures To Reduce The Amplitude Of Mechanical Vibrations. Their Application Can Prevent Discomfort, Damage, Or Outright Structural Failure
Dynein 4 years ago
Rather ingenious, though really a very simple concept - it's a heavy weight at the base of the tower, which suspended by ropes attached to the upper part of the building. If the tower sways to one side, the weight will still point straight downwards and basically pull the top of the building back up.
Ray 4 years ago
Have been there a few times, it's located at the top of Taipei 101. It doesn't completely eliminate swaying but greatly reduces it. Some video of it during an earthquake in this article: https://cantilevered.blog/2019/01/11/taipei-101-and-the-damper-babies/
йЫ щЪё 4 years ago
Thanks for this- super interesting article and fascinating videos!
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Yugan Talovich 4 years ago
During the May 12, 2008 Sichuan earthquake, people in 101 were freaking out because this damper started swaying. They didn't know there was an earthquake s thousand kilometers away. Pretty sensitive!
SomeCrazyDogLover 4 years ago
I almost dropped my cap over the edge of the railing and onto the damper when I visited here XD
s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago
Maybe beehives would be noisier if they didn't have this shape!
Load More Replies... Susan Widomski 3 years ago
Don't know why, but the James Bond theme is running through my head.
#36
Kechut Reservoir, Jermuk, Armenia
Roe Rainrunner 4 years ago
I prefer a metal grill or something to prevent animals or humans from accidently getting in there...
#37
The Dresden Suspension Railway Is The Second-Oldest Of Its Kind, Dating Back To 1901
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
when you want to go to the black mesa research facility but it's victorian london
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
Second oldest continuously operating one? Because North America is filled with older suspended railways.
#38
Ruyi Bridge In Shenxianju, Taizhou
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
LOL, now i have the theme in the head, playing megadrive.
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𝕊𝕒𝕞 (𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪/𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕞) 4 years ago
reminds me of these things https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6716585,-74.0140443,3a,25.5y,215.09h,85.98t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPrrCxP-ax9MwkWqaSNpDhaVvwZ72eqw4GP2lkN!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPrrCxP-ax9MwkWqaSNpDhaVvwZ72eqw4GP2lkN%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya177.94002-ro0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352!5m1!1e4
#39
Glowing Greenhouses In The Netherlands. Photo By George Steinmetz
Holvnn Olive Ntivuguruzwa 3 years ago
I have seen from above and was wondering what is it about, it really gorgeous.
What's In Your Head? 4 years ago
These cause HORRIBLE light pollution. I hate seeing those massive, in-your-face, neon pink stains in the sky at night.
Isidien Gudmundsdottir 4 years ago
Ah I used to pick tomatoes in one of them very early in the morning
#40
The Sea Cliff Bridge, Australia
#41
Interstate H-3- Oahu, Hawaii
M O'Connell 4 years ago
It has long-been the subject of jokes. The "interstate highway system" was formally created by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, which standardized highway signage, ramp design, and provided federal funding for the construction of the system, though the highways themselves are owned by the states. Similarly, there are Interstates in Alaska and Puerto Rico.
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Kisa Kitsugi 4 years ago (edited)
There actually 3 H1 H2 and H3 they called interstates because they actually connect all the military bases on the island together and use federal dollars under the interstate system. Also H3 is cursed. Many people died making it because well they cut through an ancient grave yard and sacred lands.
#42
“It’s Not Possible To Take Such A Photograph Anymore, As The Buildings Outside Block The Sun Rays.” Grand Central, NYC (1929)
lara 4 years ago
No "air" is so clear so close to the ground that sunlight passes through without a "shimmer" showing. Air is naturally filled with particulates: dust, pollen, etc. You have to go to the "top of the world" where air is so thin that nothing can float in it. And still, you will see ice crystals.
#43
A Car Elevator In Chicago, Circa 1936
#44
[oc] Washington Dc Metro Stations Are Still Gorgeous Even If You Get Used To Them
![[oc] Washington Dc Metro Stations Are Still Gorgeous Even If You Get Used To Them](https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/60c8663c865a7_43faodod1v621__700.jpg "[oc] Washington Dc Metro Stations Are Still Gorgeous Even If You Get Used To Them")
Logic and Reason 4 years ago
I miss the metro in DC. For whatever reason I really liked the feeling of those stations.
John C 4 years ago
I know exactly what you mean - makes me nostalgic just looking at the pic here
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Rosemary Booth 4 years ago
The escalator at the Wheaton-Glenmont station is the tallest in the western hemisphere! It runs 230 feet long and rises 115 feet up. https://www.rd.com/article/wheaton-station-longest-escalator/
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"Ok guys, it's time to design Washington DC's new... -Neoclassical columns! -No, it's a metro station, you can't put... -Neoclassical coffered vault ceilings! Neoclassical! Neoclassical everywhere!!!!!"
*me* 4 years ago (edited)
I used to go there a lot to get around DC and watch DC United play but since COVID I haven’t been able to go. It’s really big, a bit dirty, but yeah this is one of the halls
Annemarie Mattheyse 4 years ago
It's a LOT cleaner than the New York subway - because you aren't allowed to eat or drink inside the system. (Doesn't stop some people, of course, but it definitely helps keep the vermin at bay!)
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Amager Bakke: Ski Mountain, Hiking Trails An Energy Plant
Smitten Kitten 4 years ago
Looks like there could be a climbing wall on the right hand side too.
#46
The Stockholm Telephone Tower With Approximately 5,500 Telephone Lines, 1890
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Welcome. Welcome to City 17. You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. I thought so much of City 17 that I elected to establish my Administration here, in the Citadel so thoughtfully provided by Our Benefactors. I have been proud to call City 17 my home. And so, whether you are here to stay, or passing through on your way to parts unknown, welcome to City 17. It's safer here.
#47
What The Roof Of Notre-Dame Currently Looks Like
Matheus Oliveira 4 years ago
Unbreak my heart, say you'll build me again… 🎵⛪
Load More Replies... memyselfandI 4 years ago
What’s amazing is that we were able to save and restore it. It’s not as sad that it burned when you think about how much worse it would have been in any other century.
#48
Three Bridges In London: A Road Crossing Over A Canal Crossing Over A Railway Line
Bianca Saville 4 years ago
The canal will have a tow path for pedestrians and bikes!
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#49
Manhattan Bridge - New York
#50
Feeling Anxious? Don't Try This Highway Under The Sea Level In The Netherlands
Derek Clark 4 years ago
It's where I live and there's nothing weird about it. Only thing that makes you realize you're living on the bottom of a dry sea is the poles with the red ships or planes on them. That's where the sunken wreckage is one. It costs too much to dig them all up so that's why we have those poles. Sometimes there's funding to dig one up.
Isidien Gudmundsdottir 4 years ago
I took my wife to Den Helder where I used to live, it's the tip of North Holland (the province that is) and showed her the water level on the left and the top of the roof to the right was lower than the sea level. " You get used to it unlike the tornadoes in Mississippi or the earthquakes in California"
#51
The Slauerhoffbrug, A Drawbridge Over A Canal In Leeuwarden, Netherlands
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
I live 300 away from a turning bridge looking like the Eiffel tower, built in 1889 and still working, but the last one in Europe (old hydrolic system still in use). We had to fight for it because the big wigs of the Harbors society wanted to replace it. The people won it's safe now, classified as an historical monument. Fight for your bridges people! https://www.google.com/search?q=pont+colbert&client=firefox-b-d&sxsrf=ALeKk00tTNGkg9CbPAHc_UNu-ILu-iTw7Q:1623885734104&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi03NjipZ3xAhUhz4UKHcH8AlIQ_AUoA3oECAEQBQ&biw=1366&bih=643
Lion's Stare 4 years ago
Man, Netherlands really puts the rest of the world to shame when it comes to engineering feats
#52
The Back Side Of Hoover Damn, Under Water Since 1936
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
The higher the water, the stronger the current, the more power you get.
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Rosemary Booth 4 years ago
They divert the river around the dam building site, then divert it back.
Load More Replies... Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
They can blow up the damn dam for all i care! -Gordon Freeman.
Load More Replies... Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
At the rate that Lake Mead is lowering due to drought - you will see it again !:-(
#53
I Was Told To Post This Here. Oil Rig Before It Is Underwater
Roshan Dash 4 years ago
These images are from reddit. The title is the reddit post title
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Inside The Main Railway Station In Berlin, Germany
Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
Berlin Hauptbahnhof is stunning, even if I found it a bit confusing those three times I arrived there as a tourist.
#55
Golden Gate Bridge Bring Constructed In 1935
*me* 4 years ago
It vanished into thin air in 1955, taking 7 souls with it into the pit of mystery
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Henningsvaer Fotballbanen (Soccer Field) In Norway
Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 4 years ago
No, it's 'fotball' in Norwegian (but 'bane', not 'banen', in this case).
Load More Replies... Anna roberts 4 years ago
Is that really as close to the water as it looks? You'd need a lot of extra soccer balls
#57
Highest Suspension Bridge In Africa - Mohamed Vi - Rabat, Morocco
#58
Eco-Link Over The Bukit Timah Expressway In Singapore
ThePracticalSarcastic 4 years ago
looks like it was taken during the annual burning of the palm oil plantations in Indonesia.
#59
7 Mile Bridge To Key West, Florida
M O'Connell 4 years ago
The bridge on the left is its predecessor, finished in 1912 as a rail line, now open to pedestrians and cyclists.
Jro308 4 years ago
I guess you could say that but most who live out there have boats. Some people even live on small islands that are only accessible by boat.
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Yanweizhou Park Was Designed To Flood During The Monsoon Season To Help Prevent The City Of Jinhua, China From Flooding
#61
Different Generations Of Bridge Design (Forth Rail Bridge 1889, Forth Road Bridge 1964, Queensferry Crossing 2017)
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Wonder if they still run a ferry across?, although there is no need it is good for tourists and really worth the journey.
Andrew Gibb 4 years ago
worth travelling by train just to cross using the Forth Rail bridge- it was incidentally rebuilt after the Tay Bridge collapsed while a train was on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Bridge_disaster
#62
Our New Bicycle Parking Has Opened Today With 5475 Spots
Fred Van Der Zee 4 years ago
Uhmm, Utrecht Central Station has 12,500 spots... and sometimes they have to close the entrance because it's full. Fun fact, there are 17.5 million Dutchies and 23 million bikes.
Joe Reaves 4 years ago
I mean it's impressive but I have enough trouble finding a car in a large car park. I'd just need to buy a new bike each day!
#63
The Tokyo Subway Network From Above
Lion's Stare 4 years ago (edited)
Mind you this is just the subway lines. There are many more surface trains in the city. Its actually quite insane to see a transportation map of Tokyo
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
Trying to untangle each and every single strand in a giant bowl of spaghetti would be less confusing than the transport map of Tokyo.
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Christie Schmitz 4 years ago
When my husband and I took our trip there this is what I was so nervous about! It looks intimidating on the maps but it is actually very easy to use and navigate.
#64
St. John's Bridge Across The Willamette River In Portland, USA
Monica Michelle 4 years ago
Omg I have been trying to explain the nail biting terror I felt on that bridge
#65
A Railroad Crossing Is Surrounded By Flooding Near Frankfurt, Germany (Michael Probst)
Steve Barnett 4 years ago
# SPOILER ALERT!!! # Reminds me of the final scene in Andrei Tarkovsky’s 'Solaris'.
Steve Barnett 4 years ago
As an aside, if you've not watched any films directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, I highly recommend watching them; he was an auteur. My particular favourite is 'Stalker'.
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#67
San Francisco Infrastructure
Lion's Stare 4 years ago
My home is just right outside this photo on the north side in Lower Bottoms, Oakland
Eucritta 4 years ago
The new eastern Bay Bridge. I kinda miss the old cantilever structure, but that may be because I'm old. It was a plain, honest iron workhorse of a bridge.
Brendan Boudreaux 4 years ago
I liked it too, but it's been this way so long that I hardly remember the old one. I drive over it almost daily and I have to at least say that the new one deals way better with traffic.
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#68
Somewhere In Hong Kong
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
That's not Hong-Kong there is no bamboo scaffolding on the pic! (it's a joke i was amazed by it so now for me -Hong Kong? -Bamboo scaffolding!)
#70
In 1976, San Jose City Councilman Joe Colla Lifted His Car With A Crane Onto One Of The Unconnected Ramps Of The I-280/I-680 Interchange To Protest It Not Being Finished. It Was Completed 5 Years Later And In 2010, Was Renamed In Honor Of Him
lara 4 years ago
After cost over runs of BILLIONS of dollars and YEARS OF STALLING, COURT CASES AND INCOMPETENCE BART is still not even close to being anywhere useful.
lara 4 years ago
Evidently marked down by someone who makes their living working for companies who are responsible for cost overruns.
Load More Replies... Black Pug Puppy 4 years ago
How to make a difference :the cookbook first a bit of inspiration then a crane ....
Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
Apparently, the Dutch were not consulted for their enlightened engineering expertise!
#71
The Minneapolis Skyway System Is The Largest In The World Covering Over 69 City Blocks (11 Miles) Which Allows You To Live, Work, Shop, Dine, Bar Hop, Attend Sporting Events & Concerts Year Round; You Never Have To Go Outside, Unless You Want To
Tim Douglass 4 years ago
Spokane, WA was building a pretty extensive skywalk system throughout downtown until a consultant they hired from... Um.... Minneapolis? told them that it wasn't a good idea, so they stopped expanding it. I seriously loved the skywalk when I lived and worked there.
Mariam Gad 4 years ago
In the U of M (University of Minnesota) they even have underground passages between buildings because of how cold it gets here. Just know it gets really cold.
#72
Meyer Werft Shipyard, Papenburg, Germany. Home To The World's Largest Roofed Drydock
lara 4 years ago
Probably one of the most arrogant "woke" statements ever made. Congratulations on your level of moral turpitude.
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Not Brilliant Resolution; But It Compensates By Being An Extraordinary Picture ... & On-Balance It Seemed Well-Fit For Posting
#74
Tapo Bus Terminal In Mexico City
#75
Wind Turbine Blade, Germany
Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
I am more impressed with the transporting of this blade than the blade itself.
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
The driver is a true hero, and considering the cost of it he should have sweat a lot.
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Klas Klättermus 4 years ago
I wonder how much longer we can keep burring them in the ground once they are replaced. That looks huge
Heather Menard 4 years ago
Interesting way of travel. See it here in the us all the time but it is always on a truck or rail car
#76
Railway Bridge In Nairobi National Park, Kenya
Mohammad Ammar 4 years ago
This isn't beautiful. I heard this railway was really bad for the natural wildlife living there.
#77
The New Main Railway Station In Vienna, Austria
#78
Hong Kong International Airport
Seán Baron 4 years ago
It is, and the half sunk liner that was in Kowloon Bay - The Queen Elizabeth - is now part of the foundations for this airport.
Load More Replies... Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
I remember reading about how they created this island with waste in huge bundles.
#79
Infrastructure That Makes You Go Hmmm
IRS 4 years ago
This is the Laguna Garzón Bridge in Uruguay. It's located over a lake, but the Atlantic Ocean is just on the side (right up corner is the beach)
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https://www.businessinsider.com/why-uruguay-has-a-circular-bridge-2016-1?r=US&IR=T
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https://www.businessinsider.com/why-uruguay-has-a-circular-bridge-2016-1?r=US&IR=T
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Bandra-Worli Sea Link, Mumbai
#82
These Unique Hybrid Monorails Ran On The Us Capital Subway System From 1915-1961
M O'Connell 4 years ago
What's even more interesting are the systems which came before, and which replaced this one! The first subway cars on this line were Studebaker electric automobiles (1909) driven through the tunnels. The following system uses 'subway cars' which are completely unpowered. They are accelerated by linear motors mounted to the track bed beneath them.
#83
Magdeburg Water Bridge, Germany
#85
Water Tower Near Moncontour, Brittany, France
lara 4 years ago
It took me a long time to find it, too. You really have to look hard.
Load More Replies... Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Hell of a lot better than the spider looking things we've got, this got class!
#86
Liège-Guillemins Train Station In Belgium. It Is Hard To Find A Photo That Captures This Place!
#88
Railways In Tokyo
Carol Emory 4 years ago
There is also a video on Youtube that shows how they switch the rails to re-direct the trains that's amazing!!
#89
Does This Count? Ice Road In Estonia. Speed Limit 10-25 Km/H And 40-70 Km/H. Advised To Avoid The Range Of 25-40 Km/H For Extended Periods Of Time Because Of Resonance. It's Also Illegal To Fasten Your Seat Belts
Irina Puzõrjova 4 years ago
Safety. You can get out of your car faster in case the ice breaks. In Estonia wearing a seat belt is mandatory, except driving on ice roads.
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The Gwangyang Steel Works In Gwangyang, South Korea - The Largest Facility Of Its Kind In The World
Caroline Huot 4 years ago
My brain has a hard time comprehending this picture! Haha!! I assume it's taken from above?
#91
The Hague Central Station, The Netherlands
Ross Hamilton 4 years ago
I love the double-decker train track design - a bit crazy and very cool!
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When The Cloverleaf Doesn't Do It For You But You Can't Let It Go
M O'Connell 4 years ago (edited)
Why, though? A cloverleaf wouldn't take up any more space. A more recent development in interchange design is a diverging-diamond, which makes so much more sense once you see one in action.
#93
Crni Kal, In Slovenia
#94
Gotthard Pass In Switzerland
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
Come on, you're in Switzerland, get an helicopter like everybody! (fancy bïtchy laugh)
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Highway Interchange In Guiyang
Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
This picture depresses me - The beautiful hillsides and the cancer of man all through it....
#97
Melting Street During A Heatwave In India
Leung Lok 4 years ago
wait...a heat wave hot enough to make the paints like this? how about the effect on humans?
M O'Connell 4 years ago (edited)
The heat caused the asphalt to soften and undergo plastic deformation (taking the paint with it) as vehicles drove across it. This is usually due to a combination of unusual heat and a slightly 'off' asphalt mix, too much petroleum and not enough binder.
Load More Replies... MrOwlAteMyMetalWorm. 4 years ago
India produces highest number of unemployed engineers.Lololol.
Pär Hällquist 4 years ago
I was in Karachi 1982 in 49˚ C. No one was outside, you walked for 200 meters and got something to drink and the blacktop was melting so you sort of skidded and sank for each step.
#98
San Diego Freeway
#99
The Deepsea Nordkapp Semi-Submersible Oil Rig
Moo Moo Futch 4 years ago
Am I the only one who saw this and thought of COD Modern Warfare's Petrov Oil Rig map?
#101
Not Sure If This Counts ... But That Id A Huge Interchange
Dynein 4 years ago
From European perspective, US American utility structures are crazy oversized. We simply don't have that much space to waste.
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
Exactly, when you think there are entire European countries that could fit multiple times just into a single American STATE... Europe has to be efficient and not waste space, so our streets over here may be much narrower, etc, but it's just so we don't waste so much space...
Load More Replies... Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
When you consider how many tens of millions Siennas can fit on the Earth, you realize that the issue of overpopulation is one of economic use of resources, not of an absolute lack of space. But these diamond intersections which are all around Houston are each about 1,000 to 2,000 feet long. That would make this one, unless it's a wierd one, 100 acres at the absolute most. I'm finding a population density of 30,000 people in 100 acres hard to believe. (50,000 in one square mile, or 640 acres, could net you a global population of hundreds of billions while still leaving most of the Earth for greenspace.)
#102
1,5km 5% Ship Escalator | Ronquières, Belgium
#103
Liziba Station, Chongqing
MrOwlAteMyMetalWorm. 4 years ago
While you perform your satanic rituals.Conjuring 2021 was lame af.
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Terminal 1, Paris-Charles De Gaulle Airport
#105
Railroad Bridge In Brazil
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Don't give them ideas... *scared glance at DeviantArt*
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Mont Blanc Tunnel Entrance In Chamonix, France
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
Sadly one of the most polluted too. The air is very bad on the area and the tourism create trash even on the top of the mountains. My dog is born in Chamonix but i took him to the beaches of the north, he kept his job, he's a holemaker and snow and sand are almost the same regarding digging.
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Shasta Dam - Under Construction - 1942
Damon Hill 4 years ago
Most dams are for flood control. Why do we need flood control? Because stupid people build in an established flood zone then expect the government to stop the flooding and the taxpayers to rebuild them when their crap gets destroyed. Same goes for people building anything in tornado alley not constructed from reinforced concrete. I'll never understand why building codes and inspectors even allow this insanity.,
#108
"V" Shaped Bridge In Moscow, Russia
Aahzmandus Pervect 4 years ago
I wouldn't say this is a bridge, this is a viewing platform and it's really cool.
Black Pug Puppy 4 years ago
Guess who walking double the length they need to to get to point a from point b
#110
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd)
#111
Platforms At Denver Union Station, Colorado, USA
Madzdad the bard 4 years ago
Denver's Airport should also be included, the architecture is beautiful, but then it also has Blucifer, the demon horse statue, ha.
#113
Boston Before And After The Big Dig
Annamagelic 4 years ago
It's what they called the project to remove the elevated highway and move it underground. The surface was then turned into park space. It was massively behind schedule and over budget, but it made the city more walkable.
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Glynna Bowood 4 years ago (edited)
Looks like they cleared out a lot of the old harbor buildings in order to dig a deeper Port/Dock and a lot of nice parkland!
#114
Aerial Veiw Of The Launch Pads Along Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
#116
Peachtree Center Transit Station In Atlanta. At 120 Feet Below Downtown It Is Atlanta's Deepest Marta Station And It Is Massive
#118
Before And After Boston's Big Dig
digitalin 4 years ago
They dug up the city to put the main highways underground
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#119
Conveyor Belt Of The Obed Mountain Mine In Alberta, Canada. Regardless Of It Being A Coal Mine I Just Think The Conveyor Belt Is Kind Of Neat
#120
Bridge Between Two Buildings, Chongqing
#121
Kronenburg Tram Station In Amstelveen, Netherlands
#122
Édouard Montpetit Rem Station Excavation, 70m Below Montréal
Ece Cenker 4 years ago
This really puts in perspective the "enormus digging" that happened 3m from our house for a new 3.7m high retaining wall.
#123
World's Greatest Dam (Three Gorges China) Needs The World's Greatest Ship Lock. Steps: 5 / Lanes: 2 / Elevation Change: 175m / F**ks Given: 0
#124
Mackinac Bridge Connecting The Upper And Lower Peninsulas Of The U.S. State Of Michigan
ButterScot 4 years ago
This isn't the best photo of the bridge. It is truly spectacular though.
#125
Since 1998, Carmel, Indiana, A Suburb Of Indianapolis, Has Replaced Almost All Of Its Signalized Intersections With Roundabouts. They Have 125 Now And Plan To Reach 140
Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
As someone who has driven through Carmel, IN quite often, they may have a ton of roundabouts, but people still don't know how to use them!
Damon Hill 4 years ago (edited)
So far the only one I've had the misfortune of encountering is in Gettysburg PA. Took me all of 2 minutes to find a shorter way to get where I was going so I'd never have to deal with it ever again. I can see these working if they're planned in advance and have ample space for the circle vs volume but when cities replace a conventional intersection with one and the circle is too small for the volume, they're nothing but trouble.
Kerri Russ 4 years ago
We have roundabouts and not once have I used one when someone who didn't know what they were doing were there as well. People are idiots and this doesn't help anyone.
Vetus Vespertilio 4 years ago
It’s not difficult to learn. Roundabouts are safer, they can handle a larger volume of cars needing to go left than a traditional traffic light can, they reduce idling and the subsequent air pollution, and they eliminate the cost for electrical power to run traffic lights and maintenance to keep them running. Seems like that ought to be enough of a trade-off for having to learn something new.
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Here’s Highway 401 Aka North America’s Busiest Highway At Its Widest Point (18 Lanes) Just Outside Of Toronto, Ontario
Sergy Yeltsen 4 years ago
There is nothing about this that is attractive or interesting. It's just sad.
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Been there done that, notice nature is almost obliterated, but you better keep your eye on the other guy!
Vetus Vespertilio 4 years ago
The worst moments come when you’re driving 125 km/hr just to stay with the flow of traffic and somebody blows your doors off going by you on the shoulder doing 150.
Wonderful 4 years ago
Don’t forget they also flip you off and the person in the passenger seat has the windows rolled down with their bare feet sticking out the window.
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Bangkok, Thailand
ThePracticalSarcastic 4 years ago
their metro system is excellent! very convenient and well maintained
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The Telescope At The Arecibo Observatory In Puerto Rico Has Collapsed, Presumably In A Much Less Awesome Fashion Than In Goldeneye
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Solar Panels Covering The Hillside In China's Henan Province
Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
Very disheartening to see this, surely there is a better way to get solar power.
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The World's Longest Conveyor Belt. It Carries Phosphate 61 Miles From Bou Craa In Western Sahara To The Port Of Marsa
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Unlike Dallas, They Build Flyover Interchanges For Trains In Singapore. Jurong East Interchange Station
ThePracticalSarcastic 4 years ago
these are only in the heartlands of Singapore...not near the city center.
Wandaluzt 4 years ago
They're not a panda. The posts are copied and pasted from Reddit. Click the links under the pictures to see where they rip the content from. Nearly all content posts are not people from this site.
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“Duga” Radar System, Ukraine
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The Only City In Canada With A Complete Controlled-Access Ring Road .edmonton, Alberta
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The Vandenberg Space Shuttle Launch Complex That Never Launched A Shuttle
The extensive modifications to Space Launch Complex 6 (casually know as "Slick Six") at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California were largely complete. As seen in the photo, a dummy External Tank, dummy Solid Rocket Boosters, and the Enterprise (a not spaceworthy vehicle used for landing tests) were assembled at the complex for fit tests.
Shuttle landings would have also occurred at the site, so a strip at the base had been extended from 5,500 feet (1,700 m) to 3 miles (4.8 km) in length.
A Shuttle launch from the site, commanded by veteran astronaut (and exceptionally brave guy) Robert Crippen, was scheduled for October 15, 1986.
Then, tragically, on January 28, 1986, Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff. What followed was a 32 month shutdown the Space Shuttle program. Shuttle launches from Vandenburg were to have been primarily Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office missions and during the downtime they ultimately decided to shift payloads intended for launch by the Shuttle at Vandenburg to expendable rockets, with occasional Shuttles launched from Kennedy Space Center.
After transferring many of the assets of the complex to other locations (KSC, in particular), SLC 6 was formally mothballed on September 20, 1989.
But it wasn't over for the complex. It was retrofitted and reactivated in 1994, first hosting launches of Athena rockets, then Delta IV Mediums and Heavies.
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The High Street Cap In Columbus, Oh, A Cost-Efficient Way To Mitigate The Damage Caused To American Neighborhoods By Freeway Construction Of The 1960s. Holds 3 Lanes Of Traffic As Well As Two Commercial Buildings. The Surrounding Area’s Seen Significant Development Since The Bridge Was Built
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Future Station Amsterdam South
Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
Given the previous posts of Dutch engineering marvels, this seems pretty ordinary.
Sanne H. 4 years ago
It seems they are updating the regular roofs with grass roofs and solar panels. With this, they are turning one of the ugliest railway stations in something more modern. Bus still not extremely special indeed.
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Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson's Planetrain Is The Most Used Airport People Mover In The World
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A Shout Out To Savannah, Home Of The Port Of Savannah, The Largest Container Terminal In North America
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A Coal Train Swings Through The Curves At Sully Springs, North Dakota
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Newly Constructed Tunnel For Mumbai Metro
Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
Looks like a recipe for disaster- no access anywhere for emergencies.
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Paris Train Corridor
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Do Nuclear Power Plants Count As Infrastructure? If So, Then Here's The Bruce Nuclear Power Plant In Canada, Also The 13th Most Powerful Nuclear Power Plant In The World, That Generates Around 9% Of Canadian Energy By Itself
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Terminal At Berlin's New Brandenburg Airport, Due To Open On October 31 After 9 Years Of Delays And Billions Of Euros Of Cost Overruns Have Become A Major Scandal And Embarrassment To The City
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Three Gorges Dam In China. Largest In The World
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Bridge.
brukernavn340 4 years ago
Not really, just similar. It's shot from a slightly different angle, and the colours/lighting is different.
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The Willy Brandt Airport Of Berlin Is Finally Open After A Delay Of Almost 9 Years And Have Over €4 Billion Of Extra Spending
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Brian Bennett 4 years ago
I think I'd like to move to the Netherlands, they seem so innovative but include nature in a lot of their construction. I am really amazed by it all!
If I could I would live under water 4 years ago
Came here to say that! I just love how they think.
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Matheus Oliveira 4 years ago
So many beautiful examples of architecture around the globe!
There's also this one, from my hometown near São Paulo, in Brazil. It's called Arco da Inovação (Innovation Archway) and it's the only arched and curved suspension bridge in the country.
You can see more about it here: https://estudio.folha.uol.com.br/arcodainovacao/2020/04/1988696-desafio-de-engenharia-e-novo-cartao-postal.shtml 1588014079...6d30b4.jpg 
grey galah 4 years ago
Northern European countries - ahead of the curve. BUT kudos to examples of superb design in other countries too
Carol Emory 4 years ago
The pouring of the foundation of the Space Needle in Seattle, Wa circa 1962. Notice how many cement trucks are there. Space-Need...b5a245.jpg 
Grayson Wrigley 4 years ago
I have recurring nightmares about being forced to drive over unreasonably terrifying bridges. Thank you BP for providing some more nightmare selection. I have to go vomit now.
Vanya Ratulangie 4 years ago
Jakarta's clover bridge is something too! https://images.app.goo.gl/FD2MNbuVUYD3S5jKA
Sanne H. 4 years ago (edited)
The railway station of Luik/Liege in Belgium is also worth mentioning. Maybe not particularly for its engineering, but definitely for its architecture.https://upload.wikim...18_11-36-01.jpg
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
I think I'd like to move to the Netherlands, they seem so innovative but include nature in a lot of their construction. I am really amazed by it all!
If I could I would live under water 4 years ago
Came here to say that! I just love how they think.
Load More Replies... Matheus Oliveira 4 years ago
So many beautiful examples of architecture around the globe!
There's also this one, from my hometown near São Paulo, in Brazil. It's called Arco da Inovação (Innovation Archway) and it's the only arched and curved suspension bridge in the country.
You can see more about it here: https://estudio.folha.uol.com.br/arcodainovacao/2020/04/1988696-desafio-de-engenharia-e-novo-cartao-postal.shtml 1588014079...6d30b4.jpg
grey galah 4 years ago
Northern European countries - ahead of the curve. BUT kudos to examples of superb design in other countries too
Carol Emory 4 years ago
The pouring of the foundation of the Space Needle in Seattle, Wa circa 1962. Notice how many cement trucks are there. Space-Need...b5a245.jpg
Grayson Wrigley 4 years ago
I have recurring nightmares about being forced to drive over unreasonably terrifying bridges. Thank you BP for providing some more nightmare selection. I have to go vomit now.
Vanya Ratulangie 4 years ago
Jakarta's clover bridge is something too! https://images.app.goo.gl/FD2MNbuVUYD3S5jKA
Sanne H. 4 years ago (edited)
The railway station of Luik/Liege in Belgium is also worth mentioning. Maybe not particularly for its engineering, but definitely for its architecture.https://upload.wikim...18_11-36-01.jpg
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