Amazing building sites - Page 7

photoLith · #**121** Posted **Mar 11, 2009, 2:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by Monetto

Sighisoara, Transylvania, Romania

Source:http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...=433132&page=2

Uhg, I could drool at this photo for hours!

If I went there I think I would just have to go up and hug the buildings and lick them! No but seriously, I would totally lick those buildings!

muppet · #**122** Posted **Mar 11, 2009, 10:36 PM**

^Sighisoara was amazing, I visited in 2004. It's like a fairy story town that place - dark woods, chocolate box houses and sinister castles.

Ok, BRIDGES:

Cheers to Big-Dog, suspension bridge 1200ft above the river, and world's second highest bridge:

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Originally Posted by big-dog

Baling River Bridge 坝陵河大桥 (U/C), Guizhou Province

Length: 1564m
Height: 370m (to river)
on Beijing-Kunming expressway

Baling River Bridge and 320 national road

(www.chinaequip.gov.cn)

muppet · #**123** Posted **Mar 11, 2009, 10:41 PM**

This bridge is even higher, and the world record holder at 1837ft:

pics: http://bbs.enshi.cn and www.cnhubei.com

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Originally Posted by snow is red

Siduhe bridge forming part of Shanghai-chengdu-xi'an Expressway

Laying the first cable via rocket:

BIG drops:

x

the connecting freeway/ tunnel to the bridge:

muppet · #**124** Posted **Mar 11, 2009, 10:53 PM**

rool:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ingenioren

Contracts has been signed, and 26 february construction started on the Hardangerbridge project. The lengt is 1380 meters, and the span is 1310 meters. Sailingsheight is 55 meters and towers reach 186 meters.

The bridge will have to lanes and a with of 7,5 meter for the roadway, and a bike/walkpath. The trafic on the bridge is only estimated for 1850 vehicles per day in 2020 since it's located in a very sparsely populated area. Opening is scheduled for 2013.

Atm. a ferry runs over the fjord every 20 - 60 minutes depending on the season, the ferry takes 10 minutes. Project will cost 1800 million kroner (around 200 million euro.) and over half of this will be payed by toll on the ferry and after completion on the bridge.

The national routes 7 and 13 crosses the fjord, route 7 is the shortest road between Norways largest cities Bergen and Oslo - but it's not prefered because of poor road condition and bad weather across 1300 meter high Hardangervidda plateau. Route 13 is a prefered inland north/south regional connection.

In each end of the bridge it goes directly into a tunnel with a trafic-circle, a total of 2,4 km tunnel and 0,8 km road is included in the project:

Chicago Shawn · #**125** Posted **Mar 11, 2009, 10:54 PM**

^is that last bridge in Finland?

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Originally Posted by photolitherland

The picture of the small wooden suspension bridge is pretty much at the very very western end of Table Rock Lake but that lake is freakin huge. It goes through two states.

Interesting, I may have been there before when I was really young, and may just not remeber it. My family used to vacation on Table Rock Lake, but I belive it was always on the Missouri side. One year we rented a house boat for a week and may have crossed into Arkansas without even knowning it. We used to visit the nearby towns as well, so I may have been there. I have been yearning to go back to that area, its been about 12-15 years since my last visit. Absolutley beutiful terrain.

muppet · #**126** Posted **Mar 11, 2009, 10:57 PM**

Buxian Bridge, Xihai Grand Canyon, Mt Huangshan 2001

thanx to Raisbaxas, www.skyscrapercity.com

muppet · #**127** Posted **Mar 11, 2009, 10:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chicago Shawn

^is that last bridge in Finland?

Norway

Visualize · #**128** Posted **Mar 11, 2009, 11:11 PM**

Fort Lauderdale is known as the "Venice of America." It has a 165 mile network of navigable waterways.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...%3D20%26um%3D1

http://ftlauderdalere.com/Ft_Lauderd...20shot%202.jpg

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...a%3DN%26um%3D1

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...%3D60%26um%3D1

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...a%3DG%26um%3D1

http://ftlauderdalere.com/Ft_Lauderd...ial%20shot.jpg

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...%3D40%26um%3D1

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jameskpoole/2789964233/

Can't leave out Miami.

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elsonic · #**129** Posted **Mar 11, 2009, 11:44 PM**

Ganvié, Benin

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aq1/1689553266/ user CuriousApe

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hugo/se...ith/471316993/ user Hugo!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laura_c...ith/420362367/ user Laura Colomé

http://www.flickr.com/photos/4003919...ith/357097063/ user natyG

muppet · #**130** Posted **Mar 12, 2009, 4:19 AM**

omg that is amazing^

what a find

elsonic · #**131** Posted **Mar 12, 2009, 5:42 AM**

nobody mentioned

Salzburg

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblac...ite&size=large Salzburg by ladyLara

Sion

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nubui/s...th/3155026882/ user nubui

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1196795...with/98917424/ user kerimoff2000

Innsbruck

http://www.flickr.com/photos/juceveju/with/121257267/ user juceveju

http://www.flickr.com/photos/evindl/...th/2340179600/ user comin or goin

Briançon

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bs0u10e...ith/456982422/ user Bs0u10e0

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefanl...th/2991798826/ user Stefan Lachowycz

chateau de Chillon

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobesh1...th/1191902799/ user 'Bobesh

photoLith · #**132** Posted **Mar 12, 2009, 3:10 PM**

This could be the sexiest thread ever created in the history of history!

Trantor · #**133** Posted **Mar 13, 2009, 1:47 AM**

this looks like the most perfect place ever for suicidal people. Better than Denethor jumping from the top of Minas Tirith.

the Swiss City on the cool valley waterfalls dont seem real... seems like right out of Dungeons and Dragons or The Silmarillion!

Trantor · #**134** Posted **Mar 13, 2009, 1:56 AM**

Serra do Rio do Rastro

Ewan McGregor ad filmed at the location for DavidOff Adventure

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Galópolis

just a cool road, which connects São Paulo (800 meters high) to Santos (sea level). The mountains were known in the 18th century as "the wall"

elsonic · #**135** Posted **Mar 13, 2009, 5:44 AM**

Switzerland again..

Thun

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcel_...th/2056018629/ user marcel_zaugg

Glaris

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tschoewer/with/291874017/ user tschoewer

Andermatt

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonipho...th/1387849430/ user Toni V

Ascona

http://www.flickr.com/photos/2252921...th/2791635439/ user Hans Bird

Brienz

http://www.flickr.com/photos/patmic/...7600339077046/ user patrick.mcquinn

Davos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jup3nep...th/2286216171/ user Katarina 2353

?? ??

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vitanis...ith/283439111/ user Viton

Engelberg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/migroo/...ith/322042652/ user michaelGro

Grindelwald

http://www.flickr.com/photos/markush...th/2586692418/ user markus.houy

Lugano

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcosa...th/2208963230/ user marcosan74

Murren

http://www.flickr.com/photos/4138665...th/2601493245/ user Scottish Nomad

Saas Fee

http://www.flickr.com/photos/popov/s...th/3293176509/ user Popov2007

Scuol

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alfesto...th/2928896662/ user Alfesto

to be followed..

RLS_rls · #**136** Posted **Mar 13, 2009, 3:23 PM**

I was in Grindelvald in 2001. Beautiful place. I remember the town ran along the one side of a long, narrow lake. And on the other side of the lake were these massive cliffs. At least I'm pretty sure it was Grindelvald...

Either way, someone was growing hemp (or possibly ganj?) right in their back yard. Good way to freak out an 11 year old Canadian.

natelox · #**137** Posted **Mar 13, 2009, 4:03 PM**

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bearlai...85927/sizes/l/, User Alix & Gerard.

Colca Canyon, Peru

amor de cosmos · #**138** Posted **Mar 15, 2009, 3:42 AM**

Dinard, France

(not sure if this in hdr; looks like it but the description doesn't say)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spw1981/2521598430/

amor de cosmos · #**139** Posted **Mar 28, 2009, 3:53 AM**

Dunluce Castle, Ireland

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21228017@N07/2063308960/

rockyi · #**140** Posted **Mar 29, 2009, 2:45 PM**

I love this thread.