The gun series is also quite provocative. Long ago, I was tempted to hang Warhol's three super-imposed revolvers above our fireplace, but my wife went in another direction.
I've driven through that Chicago interchange hundreds if not thousands of times, and could never have drawn an accurate overhead view.
"Used to be only organic chemists needed to be able to visualize in 3 dimensions. Now it's civil engineers."
I worked with the Regional Design Engineer for the Federal Highway Administration in Atlanta many years ago. He was the go-to guy for multi-level interchanges across the nation. He would describe how the various ramps and lanes met and diverged. Clearances. grades, lane balance and merge lengths were all apparent to him. It was humbling. He could see the completed design in his head as if observing a 3-D model.
The rest of us were mumbling and frantically flipping between plan sheets to try to keep up.
I have a lot of recurring dreams that seem to stem from when my parents got divorced and my mother used to drive all over hell and gone with me standing on the front seat of the ol' Plymouth. Dad had been kinda holding her back you see.
In one dream the car is going up a steep hill, so steep it feels like the car will fall over backward. That's from all the funny steep hill streets in LA.
In another we're on a multilevel interchange, switching freeways, careening around some on-off ramp way up in the air...now I realize that the LA interchange opened about that time. She apparently drove down to check it out.
What do kids dream about now that they're inside facing backward, or lost in some DVD or game, not even looking out the window?
I remember when a company I worked for got software that could process in 3-D. They liked not having two ducts running into each other during construction, or worse.
Most, if not all of these pictures seemed to have been taken during very light traffic. Spaghetti Junction in Atlanta, where I-85 meets I-285 normally has as many cars on it as all these photos put together.
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This page has the locations:
http://www.wired.com/2013/07/peter-andrew-aerial-freeways/
Beautiful is not the first word that comes to my mind.
Viewed from this perspective, Houston is the most beautiful city in the world.
I like it.
The gun series is also quite provocative. Long ago, I was tempted to hang Warhol's three super-imposed revolvers above our fireplace, but my wife went in another direction.
I've driven through that Chicago interchange hundreds if not thousands of times, and could never have drawn an accurate overhead view.
""the prettiest urban interchange anywhere."
The pictures remind me of the 1927 movie "Metropolis" and the view from the office of the "head" of the city, Joh Fredersen.
I hope you looked at all of his other work, there's some edgy stuff in the "commissioned" section.
Our version of crop circles...
Used to be only organic chemists needed to be able to visualize in 3 dimensions. Now it's civil engineers.
I recognized #9 almost immediately as an intersection in Albany, NY (i787 & 20).
Nice designes. In Atlanta they add another part at a time over 30 years and it looks that way.
Some people have called interstates “the cathedrals of our time”, not me, but some people.
I didn't recognize any. I consider that a good thing.
"Used to be only organic chemists needed to be able to visualize in 3 dimensions. Now it's civil engineers."
I worked with the Regional Design Engineer for the Federal Highway Administration in Atlanta many years ago. He was the go-to guy for multi-level interchanges across the nation. He would describe how the various ramps and lanes met and diverged. Clearances. grades, lane balance and merge lengths were all apparent to him. It was humbling. He could see the completed design in his head as if observing a 3-D model.
The rest of us were mumbling and frantically flipping between plan sheets to try to keep up.
I have a lot of recurring dreams that seem to stem from when my parents got divorced and my mother used to drive all over hell and gone with me standing on the front seat of the ol' Plymouth. Dad had been kinda holding her back you see.
In one dream the car is going up a steep hill, so steep it feels like the car will fall over backward. That's from all the funny steep hill streets in LA.
In another we're on a multilevel interchange, switching freeways, careening around some on-off ramp way up in the air...now I realize that the LA interchange opened about that time. She apparently drove down to check it out.
What do kids dream about now that they're inside facing backward, or lost in some DVD or game, not even looking out the window?
I remember when a company I worked for got software that could process in 3-D. They liked not having two ducts running into each other during construction, or worse.
A nightmare of the 20th century. When the last freeway has been de-commissioned we can all form a peace circle and sing Kumbaya.
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$100 per square foot to build those bridges.
Most, if not all of these pictures seemed to have been taken during very light traffic. Spaghetti Junction in Atlanta, where I-85 meets I-285 normally has as many cars on it as all these photos put together.
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