Thursday, September 06, 2007

demolition


They've been verrry slowly demolishing this building about a half-block from my work. About a year ago, when I started my job, the open pit you see here was an ugly, seventies-style, ten-story building. They started at the top and took it down floor by floor until they finally ended up with a giant hole about negative three stories tall. Apparently, they weren't allowed to just dynamite the thing because it's located just a few blocks from the White House.

Anyway, the weird buttressing posts caught my eye, as did the leftover morsel of underground parking garage still stuck to them.

4 comments:

Eugene said...

Construction/demolition sites are really cool. In my younger and crazier years, I was an engineer building the Petronas Twin Towers. I go to the site almost every day, and one of the coolest things that you can see is how the scenery changes each day. One day there is a dirt road through one place...the next it's a humongous hole dug to put in yet one more thing that upper management wanted in the last minute.

I am sure you have seen those speed-up movies of construction sites, but it never beats actually experiencing it in literally slow-mo....

t said...

Hey Eugene, yeah I remember some of your crazy stories about building the towers. I doubt this one will be quite that tall however =) Probably office space.

Unknown said...

I love the awareness of the change in everyday things. It reminds me of that great shot you took again and again outside you apartment in Chicago.

t said...

Hi Mom, taking the Chicago pictures was a lot of fun. Seeing the building demolished would have made a great time-lapse movie too, but I would worry that the secret service might bust me for taking too many pictures...