One of my favorite activities is to walk around and observe the world — what Raymond Queneau describes as an "antiopée." For an urban engineer, this often means observing all kinds of infrastructure: identifying what they do, how they impact people's lives, and how they interconnect. Photos are shown newest first. Click any image to view it full-screen.
United Nations Campus, Bonn, Germany
Utility Pole in a Back Alley, Chicago, IL
View from Anse à Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Skyline & Rooftop Mechanicals, Brooklyn, NY
Metro, Telecom & Electricity, Lille, France
First Cast Concrete Work (Bridge), Grenoble
Cloaca Maxima (Greatest Sewer), Rome, Italy
PKiN Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw
SpaceX Starlink Launch, Cape Canaveral, FL
Fenelon Place Elevator (Funicular), Dubuque, IA
Contemporary Art Biennale, Guimet Museum, Lyon
HVAC Units on Roofs, Boston, MA
Solar Farm vs. Coal Plant, Aix-en-Provence
Archimedes Screw, River Don, Aberdeen, Scotland
Sewer Museum, Paris, France
Infrastructure in Cascades Park, Tallahassee, FL
Coal & Gas-Fired Power Plant, Michigan City, IN
Telecom Tower, West Loop, Chicago, IL
Rooftops (AC, Antennas & Chimneys), Ansouis
Colonnade du Louvre during COVID Lockdown, Paris
Cité Radieuse, Le Corbusier, Marseille
View from Victoria Peak, Hong Kong
Kênh Đôi Canal Settlement, Ho Chi Minh City
Building Demolition, Hanoi, Vietnam
LA River by Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank, CA
Medieval Street with Center Gutter, Lyon, France
Stuart Semple Artwork, Denver Alley, CO
Annapolis Tidal Power Plant, Nova Scotia
Welding of Tram Tracks, Berlin, Germany
Las Vegas at Night from Plane, NV
Carbon-Neutral Waste-to-Energy Plant, Zurich
Underground Infrastructure, Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Marina South & Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
Decentralizing the Power Grid, San Diego, CA
Copenhill Waste-to-Energy & Little Mermaid, Copenhagen
Nanpu Bridge Interchange, Shanghai, China
Electric Infrastructure next to HOPE Gallery, Austin
Rain Garden, Pilsen Sustainable Street, Chicago
Infrastructure in Hutong, Beijing, China
Art Nouveau Trash Bin, Saint-Sulpice, Paris
Enwave District Cooling Chiller, Chicago, IL
View of Tokyo with Tokyo Tower, Japan
Findlay Market Streetcar Station, Cincinnati, OH
People Mover, Detroit, MI
Big Allis Power Plant, Long Island City, NY
Elevated Train, Jeepneys & Tuk Tuks, Manila
Chicago Street Lights from Plane
US Capitol Old Subway Car, Washington DC
Stereoscope by William Kentridge, Korea
New and Old Water Pipes, Chicago, IL
Electric Transmission Lines & Tree, Manila
Do Ho Suh, Home within Home, MMCA Seoul
Google Bikes in the Googleplex, Mountain View, CA
Milwaukee Museum of Art (Calatrava), WI
Boats in the Bosphorus, Turkey
Scaffolding in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
Couvent de la Tourette, Le Corbusier, Eveux
Cheonggyecheon Promenade (former highway), Seoul
EV Charging from Wind, Jeju Smart Grid, Korea
Gateway Arch, St. Louis, MO
Oil Platform, St. John's, NL
Forge Lebailly, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
Chicago at Dawn, IL
Mont-Royal Metro Station, Montreal, QC
Chicago Skyline from UIC, IL
Electric Pole, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Marina Bay from Singapore Flyer
Heathrow Pod (Personal Rapid Transit), London
Confluence (Rhône & Saône), Lyon, France
Tram in front of the Vienna Opera House
Eiffel Tower & Metro on Bir-Hakeim Bridge, Paris
Chicago River at Night, IL
Red Line on Longfellow Bridge, Boston, MA
Bitexco Financial Tower, Ho Chi Minh City
Singapore MRT Elevated Line at Night
Double-Decker Tram, Hong Kong
Tuk Tuk under Si Rat Expressway, Bangkok
Marina Bay Sands Hotel, Singapore
CN Tower, Toronto, ON
Ecolobus by Edifice Price, Quebec City
D Line, Lyon Metro, France
Colosseum, Rome, Italy
Bibliothèque nationale de France at Sunset, Paris
Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy
Barclays Bikes, London, UK
Empire State Building from Rockefeller Center, NY
Highway over the Hoover Dam, NV
Lower Bay Ghost Station, Toronto, ON
360° View from the Trepied, Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Vasco Da Gama Bridge, Lisbon, Portugal
Washington Memorial, Washington DC
1951 PCC Streetcar, Toronto, ON
View from Broadview, Toronto, ON
Saint-Pierre Harbour, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
Summer Hill, Toronto, ON
Cable Car & Bay Bridge from Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA
