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  1. The Silo Remembers the Harvest

    From Nebraska to New York, the silos are hollow until hallowed. The elevator starts before the sun does. On a November morning in 2019, I stood by a rail siding in a county-seat town in Nebraska and watched a truck empty itself into the pit while the leg lifted the corn a hundred feet into the headhouse, kernel by kernel, out of sight. What stays with you is the sound. A grain elevator at work has a voice like weather, a steady granular rain inside a concrete throat, and the dust it exhales catches the first light and holds it for a moment above the tracks. The building does one thing a child could explain: it keeps the harvest, standing at the edge of town, taller than the church, the courthouse, and the water tower, doing that one thing for a hundred years. Yet the same word that names this building now names the most despised structure in American institutional life. Say "silo" in a boardroom or a hearing room and the response arrives on reflex: break them down. Somewhere between the rail siding and the hearing room, the container became the crime. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/08/29/the-

  2. Untapped Cities examines the curtain wall architectural technique through Richard Roth Jr.'s work on Alexander's department store in NYC and how Alexander's represented innovation in both retail architecture and construction methods during the post-war building boom.
    #NYCArchitecture #CurtainWall #ModernArchitecture #ArchitecturalHistory #RichardRothJr #RetailArchitecture #UntappedCities
    untappedcities.com/curtain-wal

  3. Untapped Cities examines the curtain wall architectural technique through Richard Roth Jr.'s work on Alexander's department store in NYC and how Alexander's represented innovation in both retail architecture and construction methods during the post-war building boom.
    #NYCArchitecture #CurtainWall #ModernArchitecture #ArchitecturalHistory #RichardRothJr #RetailArchitecture #UntappedCities
    untappedcities.com/curtain-wal

  4. Santiago Calatrava’s Sunrise Masterpiece

    The Pont de l’Assut de l’Or in Valencia, near the City of Science and Art is a striking piece of architecture, so when this sunrise turned purple just before the sun rose over the horizon I had to make sure to get a photo of this stunning bridge.

    The Pont de l’Assut de l’Or was designed by renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and completed in 2008. Its distinctive single pylon stands 125 metres tall, making it the highest point in Valencia and a defining feature of the city’s skyline. The bridge’s name translates to “Bridge of the Assut de l’Or Dam,” referencing a historic dam that once stood nearby. What’s particularly impressive about this cable-stayed design is that the asymmetric pylon (leaning at an angle rather than standing vertical) creates enormous engineering challenges. All the weight and tension from the bridge deck must be balanced through that single angled support point. Calatrava, who trained as both an architect and an engineer, is famous for these gravity-defying designs that blend structural innovation with sculptural beauty. The bridge is part of Valencia’s City of Arts and Sciences complex, which Calatrava also designed, transforming a former riverbed into one of Europe’s most striking examples of contemporary architecture. The entire complex cost over €1 billion to build and has become Valencia’s most iconic modern landmark.

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    #architecturalPhotography #bridgePhotography #cableStayedBridge #CityOfArtsAndSciences #contemporaryDesign #goldenHour #modernArchitecture #Photo #Photography #PontDeLAssutDeLOr #SantiagoCalatrava #Spain #SpanishArchitecture #sunrise #sunrisePhotography #Valencia #ValenciaLandmarks #ValenciaTourism

  5. Light Trails on Eamon de Valera Bridge

    Evening traffic whizzes past last week. Just after the sun had set, but the street light above my head hadn’t come on yet, so I got a nice long exposure.

    How does photography affect your memory? Interesting podcast episode.

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