Tag: construction photos

Construction Equipment

PHOTOS: This monster Liebherr excavator is single-handedly digging a tunnel for Europe’s biggest infrastructure project

No. 13 Story in 2015 « No. 14 No. 12 » [imagebrowser id=165] While Americans fuss and fume over our crumbling infrastructure, the Germans are forging ahead with Stuttgart 21, the largest infrastructure project currently under construction in Europe. And as is typical with German infrastructure builds, the project is ahead of schedule and under […]

January 7, 2015

Home

No. 9 in 2013: Death-defying Empire State Building construction photos

In July, we unearthed some very old photos from the New York Public Library’s digital collection. Taken in 1931 they chronicle the construction of New York City’s famed Empire State Building. The $25 million project took a little more than a year to complete and at certain points, more than 3,400 workers were on the job […]

December 30, 2013

Home

Amazing Empire State Building construction photos from 1931 show workers hanging on for dear life

OSHA might frustrate those in the construction industry from time to time, but after taking a look at these photos, you might be a little more thankful it’s around. Brought to our attention by the folks at BuzzFeed, these photos from the New York Public Library’s digital collection are from 1931 and give an amazing […]

July 1, 2013

Construction Equipment

Construction photos of NYC’s Second Avenue Subway are otherworldly

“When you look at my pictures, you do get a sense that you’re in the center of the Earth. Sometimes it’s like another planet.” That’s what Patrick Cashin, a staff photographer for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York, told Flickr when the photo sharing website recently interviewed him for a blog post on the astounding photographs […]

June 17, 2013