F60 Overburden Conveyor Bridge: The Horizontal Eiffel Tower
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2023
About 60 km north of Dresden, in Lichterfeld-Schacksdorf in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany, lies a steel behemoth. It’s a gigantic over...
Showing posts with the label Industrial
The Ruins of Washburn A Mill, Minneapolis
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 30, 2019
The tasteful ruins on the banks of the Mississippi River from which rises the Minneapolis’ Mill City Museum serves as a reminder to the site...
Repurposing Old Industrial Sites As Public Parks
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 27, 2019
The public park Landschaftspark in Duisburg-Meiderich, Germany. Image credit: mini_malist/Flickr Landschaftspark, or “landscape park”, of ...
Bernd And Hilla Becher’s Industrial Photography
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2019
For over 40 years, starting from the early 1960s, German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher photographed over two hundred industrial plants and...
The Cranes of River Clyde
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2019
A giant cantilever crane looms over a car park adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn at Glasgow City. During its heydays, this crane used to lo...
Canary Girls: The World War One Women Who Turned Yellow
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2018
Munition workers in a shell warehouse at National Shell Filling Factory No.6, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire in 1917. Photo credit: Imperial War...
Morwellham Quay: A Historic Copper Port
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 21, 2018
Just four miles to the southwest of Tavistock, in Devon, England, “bordering the beautiful River Tamar, amidst towering cliffs and gently ro...
America’s Last Log Flume
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 23, 2018
Log flume rides are staple for any amusement park, but before they became thrilling fun rides, log flumes were used in the lumber industry t...
THUMS: California’s Secret Oil Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 31, 2018
Not too far off the coast of Long Beach, California, are a set of four artificial islands containing towering white buildings set amidst pal...
The Potteries of Staffordshire
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 16, 2017
The art of pottery making has been known since ancient times. However, the first true porcelain was made in China only during the Han Dynast...
The Steam Hammers Of The Industrial Age
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2017
Standing proudly at the entrance to the French industrial town of Le Creusot, in the region of Bourgogne in the eastern part of the country,...
The Abandoned Humberstone And Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2016
Forty-eight kilometers east of the city of Iquique in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, lies the remains of two large saltpeter works. B...
The Historic Blast Furnace at The Port of Sagunto
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2015
The port city of Sagunto is located on the Mediterranean Sea, in Eastern Spain, about 30 km north of Valencia. The city was found more than ...
Monte Kali: A Mountain of Table Salt
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2015
Monte Kali is an unusual landmark in the small town of Heringer in eastern Hesse, Germany. It’s a spoil heap containing nothing but sodium c...
Gas Works Park in Seattle
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 31, 2015
Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington, is an unusual public park located on the site of a former coal gasification plant, on the shores of L...
Ruhr’s Slag Heap Tourism
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2015
The Ruhr region in North Rhine-Westphalia, is naturally flat but dotted with hundreds of small man-made hills. These impressive elevations a...
The Slag Heaps of Loos-en-Gohelle
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2015
In the commune of Loos-en-Gohelle, a former mining town in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, are a series of five conical hills, of w...
Titan Clydebank: An Industrial Crane, Now Scotland’s Unique Attraction
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2015
On the banks of River Clyde, in the town of Clydebank, in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, a towering cantilever crane rises. A hundred years ...
Speicherstadt, The Historic Warehouse District of Hamburg
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 7, 2015
The Speicherstadt is the world's largest warehouse complex located in the port of Hamburg, within the HafenCity quarter. A city in itsel...
Ferropolis: The City of Iron
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 1, 2015
Near the city of Gräfenhainichen, in Germany, in a former open-cast mine, lie five enormous decommissioned industrial machines. There are bu...
