https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QliKejzLQs
A brief but fascinating animation showing the engineering of the early 15th century Charles Bridge in Prague – decades of Medieval construction distilled into one animated minute.
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As part of the ongoing $90 million renovation of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s new home at the historic Warner Grand Theatre, engineers were required to expand the old cinema stage area while retaining the building’s original 1931 back wall.
Which they did, by moving the whole thing back 10.6 meters – upright and intact – along a series of specially built tracks.
In fairness.
(Top pic: Brian Jacobson)
The 112 year-old Provo Tabernacle in Utah, damaged by fire in 2010, has been saved from ruin by the Mormon church for conversion into a temple.
With its interior gutted, walls reinforced and supported in order to dig a two story basement, the entire structure (all 3,175 tonnes of it) now rests on stilts 40 feet (12m) in the air, appearing to ‘float’ from certain angles.
(Pix: Brian Hansen/ LDS newsroom)