2012-12-24
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Pylon construction diagram, from Makeshift’s Pylons of Great Britain manifesto/booklet.
2012-09-25
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Endeavour Offload at LAX (201209220006HQ) by nasa hq photo on Flickr.
There’s a reason this picture has 77 favourites and nearly 4,000 views. Photograph: NASA/ Bill Ingalls.
2012-04-09
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Container port, Long Beach, California, US. From Curating the globe, Part 1 at refractal.
2012-03-31
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One of the radomes at RAF Flylingdales under construction. Edited from this Flickr post of a page of Jonathan Glancey’s book, Lost Buildings.
2011-05-27
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A crane for book fetching at the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, University of Chicago. (via Robots, Not Humans, Retrieve Your Books at $81 Million “Library of the Future” at Singularity Hub, via dv at the Daily Chump).
2010-09-01
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“Top People”, a Rank newsreel about crane operators, complete with some gorgeous shots (like the woman looking out of her top-floor Golden Lane flat at a passing tower crane). (Again, via that Phil Gyford.)
2010-01-14
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John Gay extensively photographed urban scenes, particularly in London. He published a book of photographs of the capital,London Observed, in 1964. This is his own take on Tower Bridge.
2009-08-20
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Glasgow Tower Blocks: “Scottish Secretary Willie Ross and his wife at the opening of the Red Road flats.”
