ENR's "2019 Year in Construction" Slideshow
The 2019 ENR Photo Contest Winners Gallery showcases a collection of the world’s greatest construction photography taken in the past year. The annual contest honors the photographers, without whose efforts this gallery wouldn’t exist and take its place in ENR’s online archive of contest winner galleries that stretches back to 2003. Each photo tells a visual story, and each caption, crafted by our editors after interviewing the photographers to get the back stories, will help readers appreciate the quality of this extraordinary work even more. Please enjoy the 2019 winners gallery of the greatest construction photography in the world!
FNB Tower, Raleigh, N.C.
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Photographer: Tyler Humphreys
FNB Tower, Raleigh, N.C.
Submitted by Jenna Craig, Choate Construction
In his debut jobsite photo as a newly hired Choate project engineer, Humphreys used an Insta360 OneX 360° camera with its “Tiny Planet” setting to become part of an eye-catching visual of a 22-story tower, opened last month, that is core to Raleigh’s expanding urban center. Choate is the $116-million project’s contractor. “I was standing beside guardrails on the 20th floor during the slab pour so I could get a view of as much of downtown as possible,” he says. ”I am definitely not a professional photographer, but I have always been interested in learning how to get the best shots.” A recent University of Tennessee construction science grad who says he’s been a “sponge” for industry knowledge in his first year on the job, Humphreys credits an aunt, a sports and commercial photographer, with helping him sharpen his camera skills.
West Bathtub Vehicle Access Structure, New York City
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Photographer: Michael Mahesh
West Bathtub Vehicle Access Structure, New York City
Submitted by Chi Ling Moy, Louis Berger US at WSP
Michael Mahesh, senior engineer with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, noticed the radiating lines of rebar for the helix-shaped ramp of the West Bathtub Vehicle Access Structure serving the future Perelman Performing Arts Center. It is the last project on the 16-acre site of New York’s World Trade Center. “The photo was taken in the morning, at a vantage point standing one level above at about 20 feet,” says Mahesh, who used a Canon 6D. “It’s a routine progress shot, but the complex array of rebar and the difficulty of installation and difficulty to walk on the rebar was the inspiration to take the photo. Early morning light filtering through the structure added to the complexity and drama.”
One Hundred Tower, St. Louis
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Photographer: Christian Luchun
One Hundred Tower, St. Louis
Submitted by Allison Vollmar, Clayco
The Jeanne Gang-designed One Hundred Tower rises 385 ft in St. Louis, and each of its 36 stories has a post-tensioned, jagged floor slab with a different design from the others. Christian Luchun, virtual design and construction director for project design-builder Clayco, took this photograph of a view looking up the building through a concrete deck opening between the garage podium and residential tower. It will eventually be obscured when the project is completed. “The engineering of the construction can be as interesting as the design,” says Luchun. It “shows the temporary experiences created during the construction process that let you appreciate the effort in engineering and craftsmanship required to realize an idea.”
Houston Ship Channel Bridge, Pasadena, Texas
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Photographer: Lee Beckmann
Houston Ship Channel Bridge, Pasadena, Texas
Submitted by William Torres, HNTB
For the $962-million Ship Channel Bridge, crews placed 5,600 cu yd of concrete for the 9-ft lift of a main span footing over the course of 40 hours. Photographer Lee Beckmann was on site to document the different stages and activities of the placement and happened to capture this shot using a Canon 5dIV with a 16-mm lens while walking on a platform overlooking the work. “These men are standing on a mat of rebar while working on placing the concrete below them,” Beckmann says. “Seeing the work from the platform above provided a unique and interesting view not normally seen in this type of construction.”
Purple Line Transit, Bethesda, Md.
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Photographer: Zachary Stokes
Purple Line Transit, Bethesda, Md.
Submitted by Nicole Pace, Stokes Creative
Photographer Stokes is documenting the Maryland Transit Administration’s Purple Line light-rail project, under construction in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. On the morning of this shoot, workers were grappling with spreader beams supplied by United Rentals. “It was about 8°,” Stokes recalls. “My hands were sticking to the camera, but the clarity that day was amazing. The different shades of yellow—on the pieces of equipment and on the workers’ safety gear—really popped.”
American Electric Power’s Uvalde-to-Campwood 69-kV Upgrade/Rebuild, Uvalde, Texas
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Photographer: Robert Johnson
American Electric Power’s Uvalde-to-Campwood 69-kV Upgrade/Rebuild, Uvalde, Texas
Submitted by Kayley McCreary, Phillips & Jordan
Being partial to “the hard contrasts” that are possible in low-light situations, Robert Johnson, an assistant project manager with Phillips & Jordan, used his Canon EOS 5D Mark IV to take advantage of a foggy March morning and capture the contractor’s installation of a 4-mile-long access road supporting an electrical line upgrade project in Texas. Here, the operator of a Timber Pro 830 forwarder has just dropped a cross-laminated mat into place to form the temporary road. Though the just-placed mat is barely visible, Johnson’s photo conveys its weight by capturing the “cloud of thick dew and blades of grass” blowing through the morning air, as described in the contest entry. Johnson says shooting in these “not-great conditions” helps show that “the work is hard and dirty.”
UVA University Hall Implosion, Charlottesville, Va.
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Photographer: Sanjay Suchak
UVA University Hall Implosion, Charlottesville, Va.
Submitted by Andrew Roberts, Renascent Inc.
This photo, taken by University of Virginia senior photographer Sanjay Suchak, is part of a long-term documentation of the controlled demolition of the school’s basketball arena by Renascent Inc. “This is a frame from a drone during the implosion, the final step in the demolition,” says Suchak of the shot, which captured the roof in the midst of collapse. “The implosion was engineered to push the dust and debris to the top of the frame. Demolition via implosion was required because the arena was built using a tension ring to hold together the roof,” he adds. “Once that ring is breached the arena would fall, hence other means of demolition would not be possible.” The building was demolished as part of UVA’s redevelopment plan.
The Crossing at Jamaica Station, Queens, N.Y.
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Photographer: Ralph D’Angelo
The Crossing at Jamaica Station, Queens, N.Y.
Submitted by Brian Ferry, CNY
Photographer Ralph D’Angelo journeyed more than 30 stories above the congested streets of Jamaica, Queens, to capture the heart-stopping high-wire act of riggers disassembling the cables from a tower crane. “They have nerves of steel to do such heavy work at such precarious altitudes,” says D’Angelo, owner of CIG Digital Inc. “In this photo, I was trying to capture the gravity of the situation while trying to include some of the New York City skyline for context.” CNY is providing construction manager-at-risk services for the 1-million-sq-ft, transit-oriented The Crossing at Jamaica Station. The mixed-use development features two towers sandwiched between the Long Island Rail Road’s Jamaica Station and three MTA subway lines. CNY says the project, which will add 669 affordable and market-rate rental units, retail and parking to the area, is critical to Greater Jamaica’s revitalization.
Amli Fountain Place, Dallas
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Photographer: Steve Ruiz
Amli Fountain Place, Dallas
Submitted by Vincent Neault, KSC Inc.
KSC Inc. Field Superintendent Steve Ruiz captured this shot on his Samsung Galaxy Note 9 while taking progress photos to enter into Procore. KSC was contracted to fabricate and install decorative metal panels on the edges of the balconies of the AMLI Fountain Place tower. “You have to be properly tethered off to get out onto these balconies because there’s no guardrails,” submitter Vincent Neault says. “It’s not something we would send a normal architectural photographer out on—he wouldn’t be able to just walk on a job site and take this photo.” You have to be “an insider to get access to that view.”
Rainier Square Tower Core, Seattle
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Photographer and submitter: Keith Evans
Rainier Square Tower Core, Seattle
The speedy erection of a first-of-its-kind steel core wall for the 850-ft-tall Rainier Square Tower so entranced Evans that for nine months, he made a habit of walking by the site, camera in hand, both on his way to work at nearby Ankrom Moisan Architects Inc. and during lunch breaks. Evans, an architect who views photography as a way to create, tell a story and learn about the world around him, ended up with a de facto “photologue” of the steel work, which took only 10 months. Wright Runstad & Co., RST’s developer, was so impressed that it ran an Evans slide show at the topping out event last summer and used one of his photos for the topping out T-shirt. In this shot among thousands, ironworker Kevin Maile effortlessly guides the massive double-H module into place. His balletic stretch bears an “uncanny” resemblance to steel erection scenes of the early 20th century, says Evans.
North Fork Spillway and Embankment Improvements Project, Asheville, N.C.
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Photographer: Jeremy Crocker
North Fork Spillway and Embankment Improvements Project, Asheville, N.C.
Submitted by Kayley McCreary, Phillips & Jordan
While documenting updates to the 1950s-era North Fork Reservoir Dam, photographer Crocker with BClip Productions experienced various types of weather during his frequent site visits. On this singular day, “all the scenarios were perfect,” he says. “The full force of spring, with the vibrant green of the trees and the perfect clarity in the air, enhances the crispness of the shot. But the thing that made this day really special was the calmness of the water, which created that mirror-like effect with the cumulus clouds in the sky.” The resulting mirror image disorients the eye. The project, begun in 2017, aims to make the dam more resilient by raising it by 4 ft, improving the principal spillway, adding earth buttressing to reinforce seismic stability and building an auxiliary spillway. “This has been a very beautiful location to shoot, but this day was unique. It really came across on camera,” Crocker says.
Gerald Desmond Bridge Project, Long Beach, Calif.
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Photographer and submitter: Marie Tagudena
Gerald Desmond Bridge Project, Long Beach, Calif.
Marie Tagudena, full-time site photographer for Shimmick Construction, has gone every day for more than six years to photograph the constantly changing construction site of the Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement Project. She says the key to catching a shot like the one above is to always keep an eye open for what’s new on the job. For this photo, she noted a worker making adjustments to the boom of the derrick crane—a rare sight. With the human presence in contrast to the stark black and orange pop of the crane and the fog washing out the tower and cables, “it’s a guessing game of what he’s doing there,” she says.
California High-Speed Rail Project, Fresno, Calif.
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Photographer and submitter: Daniel Galvin
California High-Speed Rail Project, Fresno, Calif.
Galvin, construction communications manager for WSP, walked through this trench looking for something interesting. Crews with the joint venture Tutor Perini Zachry Parsons have been constructing a concrete box for high-speed trains that will navigate SR 180, a Union Pacific rail spur and an irrigation canal,” he says. “I shot this last January before they began installation of rebar for the walls and floor. I liked the way the sunlight was shining through the structure and the shadows it created.”
Houston Ship Channel Bridge, Pasadena, Texas
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Photographer: Lee Beckmann
Houston Ship Channel Bridge, Pasadena, Texas
Submitted by William Torres, HNTB Corp.
While on site to document work on the $962-million Ship Channel Bridge, Beckmann encountered an ironworker putting the finishing touches on a drilled shaft reinforcement cage, which was resting on dunnage on the ground. From one end, Beckmann could see the worker inside, bending down to carefully tie rebar for one of the 96-in.-dia main span drilled shafts. It came down to being at the right place at the right time, and he took the shot using a Canon 5dIV with a 70-200 mm lens. “This picture captures the delicate work that goes into every bridge element, even those deep beneath the ground, like this main span foundation reinforcement,” Beckmann says. “While the shot is visually compelling, it also captures a moment of careful and physically demanding work.”
SK Battery America, Commerce, GA.
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Photographer: Matt McFarland
SK Battery America, Commerce, GA.
Submitted by Allison Vollmar, Clayco
McFarland, owner of mstudiowest, was struck by the site of the crew climbing rebar to achieve ties for a cast-in-place concrete wall, which the team says was more efficient than constantly resetting ladders or lifts. “The workers made it seem easy, even though they were harnessed to the steel, scaling all the steel rebar to make it structurally sound,” McFarland says. The 2.4-million-sq-ft,$1.67-billion facility is SK Innovation’s first electric vehicle battery factory in the U.S.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Schenectady Community Center, Schenectady, N.Y.
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Photographer and submitter: Paul Knapick
Boys & Girls Clubs of Schenectady Community Center, Schenectady, N.Y.
“For our company, I try to catch a little bit of everything and show that it’s not all sunshine out there,” says Knapick, who has been a staff photographer at contractor BBL Construction Services for the past 20 years. On this particular snowy day, workers were framing the exterior walls of the building. Knapick was on the opposite side of the site, using a telephoto lens focused on the falling snow. He was “shooting through the building,” with the workers beyond, out in the elements. “They pretty much had to keep it going, and they were.”
Waste Recycling Plant Sorter, Medina, Ohio
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Photographer: Jeff Keller
Waste Recycling Plant Sorter, Medina, Ohio
Submitted by Peggy Cook, HGC Group of Cos.
Keller, a structural welder and foreman for SSRG, the Cincinnati renovation contractor on the project for Midwest waste management firm Rumpke, shot this cellphone progress photo from the edge of a new 60-ft-dia sorting machine as the owner’s maintenance manager, Larry Ochs, walked through during a tour of the site. “Photography is not a huge part of my job, but I thought it would be a really cool picture,” says Keller. Cook says she and her marketing peers were “blown away” by the image. SSRG is a unit of HGC, operating since 1931.
Concrete Finisher, Madison, Wis.
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Photographer: Paul Vassalotti
Concrete Finisher, Madison, Wis.
Submitted by Alex Mielke, JP Cullen
Photographer Paul Vassalotti snapped this picture of a concrete finisher taking a momentary pause during the Judge Doyle Square project, a six-story underground parking ramp in Madison, Wis. The morning had been overcast, but then the sun appeared, allowing Vassalotti to take the shot. “I saw this as an opportunity to capture the face of one of the finishers that would reflect the look of someone who had been working hard to get this job done,” he says, adding that he was looking to capture the “human element” of a concrete pour.
Oroville Spillways Emergency Recovery, Butte County, Calif.
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Photographer and submitter: Kelly Grow
Oroville Spillways Emergency Recovery, Butte County, Calif.
Grow, a senior photographer with the California Dept. of Water Resources, started showing up during night shifts for a different perspective after photographing countless daytime concrete placements on the massive project. While dark skies provide drama, Grow says the photo’s real feat comes from her vantage point: up very close and personal. “It’s a huge trust thing,” she says of the respect she earned, with the added challenge of being a female photographer, over two years documenting the project’s progress. “I had to prove to them that I knew how to walk around a construction site and not fall in a hole—you don’t have to hold my hand, I’m good.”
Central Susquehanna Valley Transportation Project, Northumberland, Snyder and Union Counties, Pa.
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Photographer and submitter: Chris Skorny
Central Susquehanna Valley Transportation Project, Northumberland, Snyder and Union Counties, Pa.
On the morning of Dec. 27, 2018, Skorny, a surveyor and 3D modeler with Cedarville Engineering Group, was standing near an abutment of a 4,545-ft-long bridge, a key part of an $865-million project. Waiting for the fog to lift before carrying out aerial drone mapping for a Bentley Systems-Topcon Positioning Systems-Cedarville team, Skorny flew a drone to an altitude of about 300 ft above ground level to capture this image. “This is the best photo I’ve ever taken in my life,” he recalls thinking at the time. ”I could never recreate that.”
I-66 Extension, Northern Virginia
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Photographer: Zachary Stokes
I-66 Extension, Northern Virginia
Submitted by Nicole Pace, Stokes Creative
Contractors have a tight work window for Interstate 66 improvements in Northern Virginia. During the summer months, most work occurs between midnight and 4 a.m. Stokes positioned himself on an adjacent overpass and used a wide-angle lens to capture an ironworker at a 45° angle.
The Quinn, Boston
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Photographer and submitter: John J. Deignan
The Quinn, Boston
Jimmy “The Voice” Lyons, depicted here, is a rodbuster with Union Ironworkers Local 7. In mid-June, the local invited Deignan to photograph work at The Quinn, a 14-story luxury condo tower being built in South Boston. Lyons asked him to shoot his crew while they tied rods for a garage ramp, but this photo was not staged. “All of a sudden, he just began to shadow box,” Deignan says. Lyons, a former Golden Gloves boxer, also drove from Boston to New York after 9/11 to help cut fallen steel in the debris pile of the Twin Towers.
Health Quest, Kingston, N.Y.
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Photographer: Robert Umenhofer
Health Quest, Kingston, N.Y.
Submitted by Casey Chaisson, Consigli Construction
Year after year, ENR photo judges select Umenhofer photos as among the best in class. Three made the cut this year. When he arrived one morning to take progress photos on a medical project in New York’s Hudson Valley region for Consigli, prospects were slim. “I just saw two guys pushing brooms,” he says. “But then I noticed a carpenter installing metal studs in a double-lined MRI room. There was a ton of light pouring in, so I didn’t have to set up any extra lighting. I was immediately struck by the kaleidoscopic effect of his reflection on the panels.”
Iowa State University Student Innovation Center, Ames, Iowa
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Photographer and submitter: Stephanie Heckroth
Iowa State University Student Innovation Center, Ames, Iowa
Frozen ripples and reflections are captured in this shot of a planar and then pleated curtain wall—with crew—taken by Heckroth, marketing manager for Architectural Wall Systems LLC. Heckroth snapped the candid photo, after waiting about 15 minutes for the shot, from a public area on the third floor of an adjacent building. In her role, Heckroth takes progress photos of all of AWS’ jobs. “I am not a professional photographer, but I have the privilege of shooting for work and shooting as a hobby,” she says.
Olympic and Paralympic Museum, Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Photographer: Robert Umenhofer
Olympic and Paralympic Museum, Colorado Springs, Colo.
Submitted by Cory Bledsoe, GE Johnson
Umenhofer travels all over the country to document different types of construction projects. One of his more interesting assignments in the past year was documenting designer DS+R’s use of Autodesk software for the Olympic and Paralympic Museum. “The contractor used lasers to pinpoint placement of exterior panels, which were all uniquely sized and shaped,” Umenhofer says. “There are no plumb vertical surfaces.” The photographer caught the moment elegantly on a sunny Colorado day, with Pikes Peak in the background.
Purple Line Transit, Bethesda, MD.
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Photographer: Zachary Stokes
Purple Line Transit, Bethesda, MD.
Submitted by Nicole Pace, Stokes Creative
Going underground to document Purple Line work on the Plymouth tunnel, Stokes found Traylor Bros. Inc. team member Maggie Stanley in full safety regalia, taking pre-blasting measurements. “She had spent time working underground in coal mines and she really knew her stuff,” Stokes says. Stanley commanded respect from other members of the crew, he adds. “There was no question who was in charge.”
Facebook Campus, Menlo Park, Calif.
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Photographer and submitter: Ross McIntire
Facebook Campus, Menlo Park, Calif.
“When doing these construction shoots, I always seek out the action. I am fascinated by seeing the sparks from welding and wanted to increase the drama with a longer exposure, as seen in this photograph,” says photographer Ross McIntire. “My father and his father both worked in construction, as did I, and I am honored to show up with a camera instead of a hammer.”
50 Rogers St., Cambridge, Mass.
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Photographer: Robert Umenhofer
50 Rogers St., Cambridge, Mass.
Submitted by Casey Chaisson, Consigli Construction
Following several days of heavy rain, Consigli’s foundation crew went deep in the hole to place precast wall panels, lowered into place by a crane operator. “The panels varied in length from 4 to 18 feet,” Umenhofer says. The formwork was a temporary measure, with pre-drilled tapcon screws, he notes. The job required precision timing and teamwork, Umenhofer says, “and these guys nailed it.”
SE Wastewater Treatment Plant, San Francisco
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Photographer and submitter: Robin Scheswohl
SE Wastewater Treatment Plant, San Francisco
Scheswohl, head photographer for the city Public Utilities Commission and a repeat ENR photo contest winner, shot this image of union welder Michael McGeehan from a plant pump station access staircase as he welded the frame for one of four watertight doors. The plant, built in 1952, treats 80% of the city’s wastewater, but many of its facilities are well beyond their useful life. “I’m always looking for unique perspectives when documenting a construction site,” she says. “The welder stood out for me because it looked like he was floating in space.”
High Line Spur, New York City
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Photographer and submitter: Timothy Schenck
High Line Spur, New York City
Working for his client, the Friends of the High Line, photographer Timothy Schenck has been documenting the development of the New York City park for years. Here, perched more than 30 stories above the High Line’s Spur extension project, Schenck used a 70-200mm lens to zoom in on the action below. Having viewed this scene many times before, the site especially caught his eye Feb. 27. The blue of the protective material laid down to protect the newly constructed walkway beneath serves as a backdrop for “these little vignettes of tools and people and materials” making up the scene that day. Schenck says he enjoys shooting in the city because “you get all of these interesting perspectives that you can never get from the ground.”
Winthrop Center, Boston
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Photographer and submitter: Lou Jones
Winthrop Center, Boston
After a long career in photography, Jones did not expect construction to be such a compelling subject. But a few years of trudging through downtown Boston jobsites in the freezing cold has given him a different perspective on the industry. “At first workers were like, ‘Why are you here?’ but I just kept going back and now they want their pictures taken.” In order to get a clear shot like this one of laborer Johnny Carter of Local 223 rigging a piece of equipment to an excavator at the beginning of an overnight second shift, Jones says he makes a point of walking the site right as work is starting up. “I like being there on the site, the fact that everything around you is in flux.”
Benson Hill Biosystems Project, Creve Coeur, Mo.
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Photographer: Matt McFarland
Benson Hill Biosystems Project, Creve Coeur, Mo.
Submitted by Allison Vollmar, Clayco
McFarland captured this scene of a worker setting a hook to prepare a concrete tilt-up panel for a lift. McFarland, owner of mstudiowest, has been a professional photographer for 26 years, specializing in construction for the past dozen years. His commissions keep him on the move to various jobsites, where he describes the intense dedication of workers as “kind of like soldiers of construction.”
Gerald Desmond Bridge Project, Long Beach, Calif.
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Photographer and submitter: Marie Tagudena
Gerald Desmond Bridge Project, Long Beach, Calif.
Looking up, or down? Though this photo—of a group of workers standing on the catwalk on one of the two 515-ft towers of the Gerald Desmond Replacement Project—was taken from below, it could be mistaken for a photo taken from way above, says Marie Tagudena, project photographer for Shimmick Construction. “To me, due to the sparse array of cloud formations, it appears that the tower and tower crane look more like a sort of spacecraft/satellite structure floating away, and we are looking at Earth from space.” The photo captures one of the key focuses of the bridge’s construction this year, the main span, including towers and cables.
Salt Lake City Airport, Salt Lake City
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Photographer and submitter: Sue Zaybal
Salt Lake City Airport, Salt Lake City
In the course of documenting the $3.6-billion redevelopment of Salt Lake City International Airport, Zaybal lobbied for and was granted the privilege of being allowed to photograph the teardown of two tower cranes. “I’d taken photos from them on several occasions during the project and had no issues with the height,” she says. “The ironworkers went about this task like just another day on the job while I shot from the safety of the deck.” At the time the picture was taken, she adds, “The ironworker had just released the outer jib of the crane, to be flown away and down to the ground.”
Tappan Zee Bridge Controlled Demolition, Westchester County, N.Y.
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Photographer and submitter: David Rocco
Tappan Zee Bridge Controlled Demolition, Westchester County, N.Y.
Documenting the Tappan Zee Bridge and its replacement has been a passion project for David Rocco, a former carpenter and contractor who took his first photos of the work in 2013. He has taken more than 10,000 since then. This freehand photo captures the controlled demolition of the old bridge’s east anchor span. Rocco is standing on the property of a homeowner he befriended when he requested access to record progress on the project’s south side. For the demolition, “I went back to the lady’s house to find out if she would still allow me to use her yard,” says Rocco. “Her response was, ‘I was waiting for your knock at the door.’”
BMO Bradley Center Demolition, Milwaukee
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Photographer and submitter: Mike Warnecke
BMO Bradley Center Demolition, Milwaukee
While walking the perimeter of the BMO Bradley Center demolition site, Mike Warnecke, creative director for general contractor Hunzinger Construction Co., paused to watch and capture a machine removing the building’s granite facade. “In the moment, it was like a large mechanical dinosaur was munching away at the side of the building,” he says. “It was the kid in me that wanted to capture this motion in a single frame.” While demolishing the 1990s-era sports and concert venue, Hunzinger recycled nearly 95% of the site’s hard materials and donated more than $1 million in electrical equipment, furniture and bathroom fixtures to Habitat for Humanity and Milwaukee Public Schools, he adds.
City Foundry, St. Louis
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Photographer: Matt McFarland
City Foundry, St. Louis
Submitted by Allison Vollmar, Clayco
McFarland literally waited for the dust to settle while photographing shot-blasting in a confined area. The room would “fog out in 60 seconds,” he said. “Everything was sucked out and I’d take a shot.” He said LED and sodium-vapor lights created an “extremely dramatic shooting in fog.” Concrete Strategies, a subsidiary of Clayco, is performing concrete restoration at City Foundry, a mixed-use development in Midtown St. Louis, Missouri.
Winthrop Center Tower, Boston
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Photographer and submitter: John J. Deignan
Winthrop Center Tower, Boston
John Keyes, a third-generation rodbuster/ironworker with the Ironworkers Local Union 7 in Boston, prepares a 35-ton cage of rebar to be hoisted and then lowered into 165-ft-deep slurry columns at the site of Winthrop Center Tower, which will become the fourth-tallest building in the city. “It was a sweltering hot August day with dust and slurry everywhere,” photographer Deignan says. “Keyes was standing nearly 20 feet off the ground on the hand-tied rebar cage, reaching up to help guide the crane hook. He lifted the work ethic of everyone working with him.”
Saint John’s on the Lake Milwaukee
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Photographer and submitter: Curtis Waltz
Saint John’s on the Lake Milwaukee
On an early September day, VJS Construction Services hired Waltz to capture a milestone concrete placement at Saint John’s retirement community’s new North Tower on the Lake Michigan shoreline. The high-budget helicopter shoot was threatened by localized dense lake-effect fog. But inspiration struck as the roiling fog provided a stunning backdrop to the project, framing the tower in different ways as the helicopter circled the structure.