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Just buildings of all sorts

The red construction on the left, I first thought it was a scaffold, but looking closer it seems to actually be attached to the building. Plus I've never seen scaffolding like that before. Do you know, fotoi?
The building is next to Tate Modern. Looking on Google Maps reveals it is the NEO Bankside Building with attached red scaffold.
 
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Great series, Lt. You captured that implosion very well. Interesting to see the collapse.

i read in the local paper they were going to implode it. it was a saturday and i had the day off so i thought NO WAY will i miss this.

went down to the site and found the least obstructed view that i could. there were probably 100 or more people there to watch and photograph it. there was a photo club there to and a lot of them had tripods set up. i got there about 530a and the deal was set to go off about 8am. i didnt figure them to be on time but i like to be places before things happen but i digress.

there was a lady gadding about (from the club i guess) and i had my hi-viz vest on and she started talking to me about using a polarizer filter. i said i was shooting without but she could if she wanted to. a worker walked by and over the radio, i hear "prepare for the countdown" (or something like that). the lady was still rambling on. i heard the countdown just seconds after the 'prepare' broadcast and BAM! they set off the charges and away she started moving. the lady turned around and missed at least the first 1/2 of the collapse.

i shot on single-frame mode because i wasnt interested in editing through 56+ images.

anyway Thank you!
 
copied from Wikipedia (because im too lazy to paraphrase):

built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. A total of 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929, including some belonging to public and university library systems. 1,689 were built in the United States, 660 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 125 in Canada, and 25 others in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Serbia, Belgium, France, the Caribbean, Mauritius, Malaysia, and Fiji.

this one is in the tiny town of Clarksdale Mississippi, which is just a hop skip and a jump down the road from "the Crossroads" where legendary Blues Singer Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil for fame and fortune as a Blues Singer.

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this is in my home town. it is now the historical museum (since 1969). i remember going there as a museum (barely!) when i was about 4. my mom was a school teacher and we went to the library a LOT when i was young.

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"the Crossroads" where legendary Blues Singer Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil for fame and fortune as a Blues Singer.
I'm sure I saw this used in a movie or tv-series but for the life of me I can't remember which it was. Ugh, these kinds of things escape you just when you think you can grasp it. I think it was a movie though.

I have one of Robert Johnson's albums here. Vinyl. I loved to listen to it on hot summer nights.
 
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