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kengineering skip to main skip to sidebar kengineering monday september 14 2009 civil art can infrastructure be considered art here s a fanciful interpretation of stairs overpasses and other civil structures and how they interact with the public aesthetic the large public sculpture is located outside the lesseps metro station in barcelona spain posted by ken at 3 09 am no comments labels barcelona lesseps monday september 7 2009 expressed structure this modern three story building in aix en provence perfectly illustrates the architectural concept of expressed structure the sloping columns and braces provide both the gravity and lateral support for the structure the structure is cast in place concrete i found it interesting that they chose not to use spandrel beams at the building perimeter it must have been a challenge to design the intersecting columns braces and slab such that there was still enough room between rebars to properly cast the concrete posted by ken at 12 48 am 2 comments labels aix en provence concrete strucutre tuesday july 28 2009 masonry repair note the 2x6 supporting masonry just to the lower left of the window that can t meet code i can imagine the conversation with the building inspector well it s been standing without the board for five centuries we consider this our belt and suspenders approach to reinforcing um i don t see either posted by ken at 6 50 am no comments labels masonry reinforcing leaning church of caen talk about settlement issues the leaning tower in pisa is not the only structure to baffle geotechnical experts this church in caen france was built on the soft soil of a former river bed legend has it that the king who commissioned the church did so reluctantly in order to attain the pope s permission to divorce his wife eglise st jean posted by ken at 6 09 am no comments labels eglise st jean geotechnical engineering soils thursday june 18 2009 batman s chicago several of these buildings were prominently feature in the dark knight hotel 41 in the lower left was dressed up as bruce wayne s swanky downtown bachelor pad the ibm building behind was the site of most of the municipal shots including the da s office the sheriff s office and the site of the pivital press conference the final climactic scene in which batman ambushed a series of terrorists while ferry passengers determined whether to annihalate each other was filmed in the then unfinished trump tower tall center posted by ken at 7 47 am no comments labels cinema dark knight wednesday june 10 2009 my first prescription glasses apparently i ve been walking around like the cyclops the world is pretty cool in 3d posted by ken at 4 57 pm 1 comment wednesday may 27 2009 two cement trucks fill a pump truck sending concrete to the top of a mid rise building posted by ken at 3 33 pm no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me ken view my complete profile my other blogs blogs asce org bridgingthegap some kind of einstein 10 years ago mistral writer trains transport tuscany 16 years ago blog archive 2009 52 september 2 civil art expressed structure july 2 june 2 may 9 april 21 march 15 january 1 2008 6 december 5 may 1