EdX User Stories
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Honduras, Tegucigalpa
Grethel Sanchez
2017-05-10
This photograph was taken in Honduras, Tegucigalpa. This project is being carried out in the presidential house area where five government...
Colombia, Villavicencio
Ana María Rincón Patiño
2017-05-10
In Villavicencio, as in most of Colombia it is built with bricks of stoneware(Gres, arcilla, in Spanish). This is the material with which...
United States, Fort Collins
Agnes Wagner
2017-05-10
The Photograph shows a construction side near my house. As the US is huge state most of the products are produced within the USA. But...
Austria, Vienna
Cristina Martín-Sonseca Ponz
2017-05-09
"Construction used to be a localized activity, but with the advancement of construction processes and construction materials almost every...
United States, New York City
Nina
2017-05-07
Museum in New York. Designed by a Japanese architect. Form does not relate to historical/traditional building. Material is normally not...
Peru, Lima
Ricardo Rivera
2017-05-05
Construction uses materials and techniques from all over the world
Greece, Athens
Maria Foustalieraki
2017-04-30
Location: Chalandri, Athens, Greece Date: 27/4/2017 Time: 16:40
Peru, Lima
Alberto Herrera Stoll
2017-04-30
I chose an office area of San Isidro district in Lima; there you can see many of the typical finishes in a building of this type and the...
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
Yousef Alamir
2017-04-29
The Picture shows the new Head Office of Alfanar Co. in KSA as shown the building is cladded with Aluminum Cladding Panels and the...
United Arab Emirates, Dubai
Elena
2017-04-25
The main image of Dubai is a set of skyscrapers' clusters. My picture was taken in Marina area. All the buildings are made of concrete,...
South Africa, Port Elizabeth
Yusraa Hamza
2017-04-25
“Construction used to be a localised activity, but with the advancement of construction processes and construction materials, almost every...
India, New Delhi
Anshu Darbari
2017-04-25
This picture overlooks the 2 of banquet halls in the Northern Zone of the capital city of India. Since almost all of the materials are now...
Philippines, General Santos
Rexjohn Maruel Acdal
2017-04-21
I think this is a fitting example for out topic. This is a photo of the atrium of one of our local malls here in General Santos City...
Philippines, General Santos
Rexjohn Maruel Acdal
2017-04-21
I think this is a fitting example for out topic. This is a photo of the atrium of one of our local malls here in General Santos City...
Italy, Rome
Giuseppe Venditti
2017-04-21
St Peters - Vatican City This is quite the same shot of the Exercise 1. It's very interesting how many informations we can desume from...
Mexico, Teziutlan
Emilio Carcaño Bringas
2017-04-19
`Plaza de Toros "El Pinal" in Teziutlán, Puebla, México. First bullring roofed in Latin America. During its reconstruction, materials...
Brazil, Curitiba
Alessandra Cury
2017-04-17
This store, is located near my house, it is built of container. I was researching and here in Brazil containers are produced in China, most...
United Kingdom, London
Daniel Diaz Reogon
2017-04-17
The illustrates an offices development and the current London city hall beside Thames river designed by Norman Foster. At the back it is...
Egypt, Alexandria
Mohamed Ahmed Said
2017-04-17
This is a picture that I took last summer when I was an intern at a solar energy company. The project targets implementing solar energy...
Peru, Arequipa
Heyner Pacheco
2017-04-16
The cove of Santa Catalina. Founded in 1579, it is made entirely of ashlar. The volcanic lava of The Misti was used by our ancestors to...
Ghana, Accra
Isabella
2017-04-16
This photo présents the technology park that was expected to be realised in a Accra area from 2013. It was supposed to be the Africa's...
Belarus, Minsk
Anastasiya Lemeshonok
2017-04-15
There are marble facing of walls and columns, granite facing of the floor and ceiling in Minsk metro. There is no mining of such materials,...
Ecuador, Quito
David Robles
2017-04-15
The building under construction allows us to see how the materials at this time are common globally among all the current constructions,...
Belarus, Minsk
IlyaKotlarsky
2017-04-15
The office building has an elevator OTIS. Obviously, they are not produced in Belarus, but imported from Russia or France. It is an example...
Peru, Lima
Kristell Oriana Velarde Hurtado
2017-04-14
The involvement of globalized economy in building construction. Short explanation showing the connection between the image and the country...
Brazil, São Paulo
Leandro Correa
2017-04-13
In Brazil nowadays we import very few elements for construction, most of them in the finishing process like porcelain pieces for floors and...
Pakistan, Multān
Rabia Haneef Meo
2017-04-11
The steel used in the construction has been imported from abroad. Even the street lights are imported. This depicts the effects of...
Peru, Cusco
CesarLucioni
2017-04-09
The cultural identity and globalisation occurring in Peru.The first image is of the center historic of Cuzco's city, which showcases the...
Peru, Arequipa
Frank Kunzze
2017-04-09
The original church was half a millennium old, but unfortunately very little is left of it. The turist guides and booklets say that all...
United States, Madison
Sudeep
2017-04-07
The picture shows parts of two office buildings. The one on the right was build about 40 years ago and construction on the other started in...
Canada, Calgary
Ian McGee
2017-04-05
In downtown Calgary, Canada there is a Chinese temple constructed out of traditional materials and made by traditional craftspeople. This...
Austria, Innsbruck
Manuel Abart
2017-04-04
In this picture you see a staircase just made from raw concrete. It is already filled with aluminum pipes in order to provide heating and...
Netherlands, Ridderkerk
2017-04-01
In this picture you can see the construction of a new road. Next to the plan to build a road, they also plan to lay wiring. Instead of...
Russia, Moscow
nadya klevakina
2017-03-30
I don't know from what countries this amterials was arrived - concrete and steel - glass
Canada, Toronto
Laura Gosmino
2017-03-29
Glass, and more specifically window wall, is now the dominating material used for residential towers in the city. A simple walk through the...
India, Hyderabad
Abhijeet Sharma
2017-03-29
The following image is that of the construction of a residential apartment complex in the city of Hyderabad, India. It is a true example of...
Indonesia, Medan
Frank de Gouw
2017-03-29
A few months ago, I went to Indonesia to do research for my Bachelor’s Thesis. This research was about the effects of urban sprawl in a...
Brazil, São Paulo
Mateus Ferrareto
2017-03-28
This picture was taken by me when I went visit Allianz Parque, my time's stadium here in Brazil. But, as we can see in all new huge...
Brazil, São Paulo
Mariana Diniz
2017-03-28
This photo refers to the Pinacoteca of São Paulo. It was taken by me on a trip during my undergraduate degree in Architecture. The building...
Chile, Santiago
Victor Cruz
2017-03-27
In the image you can see the great residential buildings that are being built in the central part of Santiago, in the so-called "historic...
Singapore, Singapore
Edward Frank
2017-03-27
Photo was taken with location in Sembawang in northern part of Singapore. The house type was named the "Black-and-White" in the British...
Colombia, Candelaria
Andres Bravo
2017-03-27
This construction mixes the materials from a developed country and a no developed one, that's because it was maded in the process where...
India, Dhār
2017-03-26
this image is o an under construction gate using stones and vernacular architectural styles. India being a developing country has advanced...
United States, Fontana
Shaik Akhtar
2017-03-25
This photo of course was initially taken with an emphasis on the sky. But below lies the Inland Empire in Southern California. From this...
Turkey, Ankara
Suleyman Adahi Sahin
2017-03-24
In terms of urbanization and development in Turkey, construction sector is the most common sector. The majority of the buildings built here...
Saudi Arabia, Jeddah
Mariam J. Dandachi
2017-03-22
Despite having a great heritage and an important history, buildings in Saudi Arabia have started to look like other buildings from around...
Russia, Moscow
Anastasia Petrova
2017-03-21
Globalization for the construction industry and construction organisations is creating a new type of construction industry, high technology...
France, Paris
Tiago Farias
2017-03-21
This photo show a commercial building located here in Paris, France. Its facade is made of a ventilated system supplied by the group Hunter...
Ecuador, Guayaquil
María Patricia Yepez Escudero
2017-03-20
Although our ancestors built sustainably, nowadays for trying to have more technology, the errors are copied and concrete is used for...
Russia, Moscow
Maria Shuklina
2017-03-20
It’s difficult to recognize local materials in Moscow, because locality can be understand in two ways as I think. At first it can represent...
Russia, Moscow
Maria Shuklina
2017-03-20
It’s difficult to recognize local materials in Moscow, because locality can be understand in two ways as I think. At first it can represent...
Russia, Moscow
Maria Shuklina
2017-03-19
It’s difficult to recognize local materials in Moscow, because locality can be understand in two ways as I think. At first it can represent...
India, Hyderabad
Adithi Reddy
2017-03-18
The construction is yet to begin in the picture. The Steel bars which can be seen will be filled with cement and used as pillars for the...
Qatar, Doha
Joeri Bijster
2017-03-16
This image I clicked while visiting a construction site in Qatar. The location is the new city of Lusail, currently being developed...
Sri Lanka, Jaffna
Pathytharan Kumaralingam
2017-03-15
"Construction used to be a localised activity, but with the advancement of construction processes and construction materials almost every...
Brazil, Divinópolis
Pedro Dias Carrilho
2017-03-14
That is a router in the office I work at, and there is a label on the back that says "Made in China". Brazil has strong steel and cement...
Peru, Lima
Elizabeth Cárdenas Arroyo
2017-03-13
"Construction used to be a localised activity, but with the advancement of construction processes and construction materials almost every...
Peru, Lima
Victor Ramirez Tuesta
2017-03-12
In this building we can see in all its extension the influence of the modern architecture and the globalization in the design. The main...
Colombia, Medellín
Laura Cañas Galvis
2017-03-12
I have decided not to share the typical image of globalized and modern architecture, because I know that many other students will do it and...
France, Paris
Diane de la Bourdonnaye
2017-03-11
This picture was taken from the Eiffel Tower and shows the business district (La Défense) in Paris. It is possible to see the difference...
India, Hyderabad
Praneeth
2017-03-08
Location : Banjara Hills, Hyderabad Project :Hylcon,(High For Life) A prefab High Rise residential Project, first of its kind and...
Spain, Madrid
Angel Luis Baldo Gomez
2017-03-07
The most extreme case of exotic building material occurs when the whole building is brought straight from its home country to another, and...
Egypt, Cairo
Hossam Nada
2017-03-07
The upper photo was not taken by me, the link to the photo is: http://rowad-rme.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/MSH_1617.jpg It depicts...
United States, New York City
Brandon Westerling
2017-03-06
NYC Highrise incorporating Chinese manufactured steel
Russia, Moscow
Anna A.
2017-03-05
This complex of office buildings is partly constructed with the method of steel reinforced concrete – using the two most used materials in...
United States, New York City
Riddhima Khedkar
2017-03-05
In today’s globalizing and ever changing era (world) using local construction activity is not enough. The need for more than local is...
Canada, Calgary
Rhianne Fiolka
2017-03-04
This photo is taken in Calgary, Canada. As I step outside I am surrounded by cement and steel. These, along with other cheap resources,...
Colombia, Bogotá
Julián Darío Otero Niño
2017-03-01
If there is really no foreign material, one can see a machine that acts as a tool for construction. There is a truck (a concrete mixer)...
Philippines, Makati City
Joseph
2017-03-01
The assigned task objective is to share ideas on the topic below: "Construction used to be a localised activity, but with the...
United States, New York City
Ekaterina Gogoleva
2017-03-01
"Construction used to be a localised activity, but with the advancement of construction processes and construction materials almost every...
Trinidad and Tobago, San Fernando
Shennese Ward
2017-02-28
the picture show the house is in the building process there are using the building method and material carefully
Philippines, Manila
Joseph Talampas
2017-02-28
The photo shows the ongoing demolition of what was once the site of the InterContinental Hotel, Manila, amidst a backdrop of buildings in a...
United Arab Emirates, Dubai
Samira Azgua
2017-02-28
The building on the photo is the „Burj Khalifa“, the tallest building in the world. It´s cladding is made of roughly 28,000 prefabricated...
Colombia, Pereira
Manuela Marin
2017-02-27
We can see how globalization involved every part of the earth, we can find almost everything everywhere. In this image, we can see how...
Uruguay, Montevideo
Daniela Asanome
2017-02-26
The picture shows a building where it was used steel, glass, concrete and other materials. However, many of this materials are not easily...
Italy, Selargius
Pierluigi Dentoni
2017-02-23
The photo was taken in my home town, Selargius (Sardinia, Italy). Southern Sardinia has a great tradition of vernacular earthen...
Netherlands, Amsterdam
Christian Madsen
2017-02-23
This is the famous building "The Eye" in Amsterdam. It is a traditional concrete steel reinforced building with an aluminium panel facade....
Germany, Bielefeld
Mira Kopp
2017-02-23
The picture shows a part of the house of my grandparents in Bielefeld, Germany. The house was built in the 1960s and back then they already...
India, Bengaluru
Amit Kumar
2017-02-23
The Photograph that I have shared is that of the World Trade Center, Bengaluru. The commercial icon of the city is the most prominent...
Indonesia, Jakarta
Tri Emil Alim
2017-02-22
This is the picture I took in the heart of Jakarta, on the way to the rooftop restaurant called SKYE. To make this megaproject running, the...
Vietnam, Hanoi
Francesca
2017-02-21
This photo shows Hanoi (Vietnam). Closer to classical french constructions, traditional single-family houses structures built atop...
Saudi Arabia, Jeddah
Rizk ghazaly
2017-02-21
Here in the middle east most of the building use cement and steel bars in most of the constructions , the rest of building sometimes they...
Mexico, Pachuca de Soto
Alejandro Yáñez Vazquez
2017-02-20
Cement is an essencial material raw, in this case the Mexican cement industrie is one of the most important in the world, the cement used...
Spain, Bilbao
Guggenheim Bilbao
2017-02-20
The airport of Bilbao was designed by Santiago Calatrava (the same one that has built in zone 0 of Manhatan). Calatrava is an architect who...
Ecuador, Quito
Pablo Barragan
2017-02-19
This image is from a building in Quito, Ecuador. Ecuador in a developing country in which the construction industry plays a very important...
Belgium, Antwerpen
Amedeo Ardolino
2017-02-19
Central station, Antwerp. Belgium, but furthermore the northern countries of Europe, has always used as material, for the houses or not...
Argentina, Buenos Aires
Karina Camargo
2017-02-19
This photo was taken in Buenos Aires, In the foreground we see the classical construction of the country loaded with local history and...
Jamaica, Kingston
Naita Chamberlain
2017-02-16
Hello, this is Naita Chamberlain from Kingston, Jamaica. I posted two images that illustrates two opposites of construction both located in...
Spain, Denia
Olmo Losada
2017-02-16
In the picture we can see a wooden house placed in Denia, a Mediterranean coastal town. This represents the impact of the globalised...
Italy, Pula
G. L.
2017-02-14
Window panels presumably made of douglas wood, from Norh-America.
Paraguay, Altos
Elizabeth Dominguez
2017-02-14
Cordillera Department. Example of sustainable construction
Italy, Rome
Michele
2017-02-14
Generally, in Italy , traditional construction techniques such as masonry or concrete beams/pillars last until today, especially for...
Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Lucas Ribeiro - Edifício Rocinha
2017-02-13
This photo represents a type of construction that reflects the process of globalization we live in, a building built in a favela that uses...
Israel, Tel Aviv
Heike Kaiser
2017-02-13
When constructing the rooftop of the new Porter School of Environmental Studies, Israel's first LEED Platinum certified building as well as...
United States, South San Francisco
Serena Zhao
2017-02-13
This is a picture of a Home Depot, a construction store. People can go here for materials for DIY projects, as well as contractors for...
Italy, Bologna
Riccardo Brini
2017-02-12
Italy, Bologna, Riccardo Brini: old bricks vs. new ones In Italy and in particular in some areas, such as Emilia Romagna, the classic...
United States, The Bronx
Dustin Engelken
2017-02-12
Please note the image is from the internet and does not belong to me. The image above shows the original Yankee Stadium (left) during...
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Deborah Campbell
2017-02-11
This is a photograph of the Scott monument in Edinburgh which was erected in the mid 1800's and was dedicated to the author Sir Walter...
Brazil, Brasília
LUIS ANTONIO ZUCCO
2017-02-10
When I was visiting Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, one of the top tourism places is the Cathedral. But, for the climate of Brasilia this...
United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi
Fernanda Rosa
2017-02-09
I am from Brazil but this picture I took in Abu Dhabi, UAE. I guess this is a clearly example of globalized economy from the design of the...
Russia, Moscow
Mark Marchenko
2017-02-08
This is the Tsvetnoy Central Market building, designed by Russian architectural bureau Project Meganom. It is a suitable example of a...
Angola, Luanda
Felix da Mata
2017-02-08
I took this picture at construction site of a villa I was involved in "bringing to the world" in the outskirts of Luanda, Angola....
India, Kolkata
Rukmini Mukherjee
2017-02-08
The newer parts of Kolkata are rapidly developing as an IT sector area. Due to requirement of high rises and fast construction in congested...
Colombia, Bogotá
Sergio Mendoza
2017-02-08
This is a house designed and built by me and my team of workers. you can see deferents finishes. some of them are: the fire placed was...
Mexico, Cancún
Christine Mc Coy
2017-02-06
This hotel was build in 2003 in Cancun,it is a Spanish Comnpany it was one of the first hotels that broke the tropycal style Cancun hotels...
India, Mumbai
Harita Salvi
2017-02-06
This is traventine marble imported to use as building material in building in SUrat, India.
Belgium, Brussels
Livia
2017-02-05
This picture represents the construction of a residential building near the European Commission district in Brussels. I would imagine the...
Hungary, Budapest
András Zsámboki
2017-02-04
This is an example of the globalization before the era of globalization. The Chain Bridge was the first permanent bridge on the Danube in...
Netherlands, Delft
Peter Nolten
2017-02-02
The Netherlands barely has any raw materials. Only sand and gravel can be found within the Netherlands and they are the only raw materials...
China, Shanghai
Helen Chen
2017-02-02
This is an image of the castle in Disneyland Shanghai. This is an international project like many projects around the world now. The...
Portugal, Lisbon
Joana Miguel Correia Fernandes
2017-02-01
This building, called the bride's cake by the locals, is fully covered with a white sandwich panel, a composite panel consisting of two...
Australia, Byron Bay
James Cloutier
2017-02-01
This photo was taken whilst i was working for a local architecture firm in Byron Bay, Australia. It shows Merabu timber being used for a...
Australia, Blacktown
Michael Maxwell
2017-02-01
The attached photo of Blacktown Hospital, located in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia, was taken by Michael Maxwell on 1 February...
Mexico, Cancún
Railway station, Atocha in Madrid, Spain
2017-01-28
Cancún is a tourist resort located in south east Mexico in the Peninsula de Yucatan. Tourists from all over the world come to enjoy the...
South Africa, Johannesburg
Sven Muller
2017-01-26
In South Africa, early building materials mostly consisted of mud, clay and timber. All of which are found almost everywhere in the...
Italy, Florence
Lorenzo Martelli
2017-01-26
By studying this module, it came to my mind that I had a very nice and interesting example of ancient globalization. Allow me to use...
Turkey, İstanbul
Güray Oskay
2017-01-26
This photograph was taken in Fikirtepe, a squatter house district of Istanbul, where the "urban transformation" is at its wildest. With...
United States, Cambridge
Maitane Iruretagoyena
2017-01-25
In the U.S. the most used construction material is the wood. The wood is produced in the same country
United Arab Emirates, Dubai
Hussein Mahran
2017-01-24
the involvement of globalized economy in building construction: - crane: China - curtain wall system: Germany
Mexico, Tlaxcala de Xicohtencatl
MBA BArch Marcos H Narvaez Silva
2017-01-23
This is the house of the Architect Alejandra Caballero (the picture was downloaded by the portal...
Philippines, Makati City
Giann Hendrick M. Matias
2017-01-22
The building in the picture is located in Makati City, Philippines. It is a LEED-certified building but its glass facade/ components were...
Spain, Madrid
Manuela Casado
2017-01-21
The picture shows the 4 towers of Madrid Financial District. These towers have been designed by international architects. Many of the...
United Kingdom, London
Konrad Pawlaczyk
2017-01-20
The involvement of globalized economy in construction of the shown building is quite significant as it is a small high-rise. The building...
Brazil, Barueri
Andre Vaz
2017-01-18
Some commercial buildings in the alphaville neighborhood, in the city of Barueri, Brazil. The architecture of the building is...
Guatemala, Guatemala City
Ludwin Rodríguez
2017-01-16
This is the construction of a new shopping center near the area where I live. Many of the new constructions that are being carried out in...
United States, San Francisco
cbecker Chuck Charles Becker
2017-01-15
This photo shows the newly completed eastern span of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge. The original eastern span was a cantilever...
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
Mohammed Aljuraiban
2017-01-13
This picture was taken in the city of riyadh. The building is a typical residential single family house. the photo was taken during the...
China, Beijing
Pinhan Zhao
2017-01-13
China Zun is a supertall skyscraper under construction in the Central Business District of Beijing. The 108-storey, 528 m (1,732 ft)...
Brazil, Macapá
MARCOS UBIRATAN MADEIRA BARBOSA
2017-01-10
THAT IMAGE WAS DRAWN THROUGH COMMAND PRINT SCREEN ON THE SITE OF A COMPANY THAT IS UNANIMOUSLY IN THE REQUIREMENT OF TUBES AND CONNECTIONS...
Netherlands, Veldhoven
Paul Desmedt
2017-01-06
different materials used in picture and their potential origin: - steel: 70% world export of Fe is from Australia or Brazil, steel can be...
India, Jaipur
Dr. Madhura
2017-01-04
IMAGE EXTRACTED FROM https://www.google.co.in/search?q=world+trade+center+park+jaipur World trade Center Park is a shopping mall of Jaipur...
Chile, Santiago
André Baltazar de Lima Barreto
2017-01-03
The Gran Costanera Center, in Santiago, Chile, has a 50.000m² curtain wall which glazing was imported from China, because there wasn't any...
Chile, Santiago
André Baltazar de Lima Barreto
2017-01-03
The Gran Costanera Center, in Santiago, Chile, has a 50.000m² curtain wall which glazing was imported from China, because there wasn't any...
United States, Las Vegas
William H. Patterson
2017-01-03
NOTE: This image is not my own. I had to source one from the internet. This is the Trump hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is mostly...
United Kingdom, London
Alexandra Wijayanti
2017-01-03
My photograph shows a new residential flat under construction in Stratford London. I have found that despite the materials being provided...
Spain, Madrid
Pai Suphavinee Srisopon
2017-01-01
The image shown is the interior of the crystal palace of Madrid, Spain. The whole building is constructed out of mainly glass material...
Colombia, Bogotá
Transmilenio
2016-12-28
Alvaro Andres Pinzon Cortes Bogota, Colombia The building in the background shows the typical architecture of a modern residential...
United States, Little Rock
Brandon Snider
2016-12-28
Heifer International headquarters, located in my hometown, Little Rock, Arkansas, was built with local materials in mind. For example, the...
Brazil, Belém
Paloma Geovanna Souza Moreira
2016-12-28
The image shows the "Estação das Docas", a tourist attraction in Belém, PA, Brazil. The attraction is made fundamentally by three restored...
United States, Notre Dame
Andrew Petrisin
2016-12-27
This is a global construction project on many levels. In the building materials sense, it is most likely built using materials from around...
India, Mumbai
Sai Kelkar
2016-12-27
Earlier, use of construction materials found nearby were more, such as mud, straw, stones, etc. But as years passed by, the need for cement...
Brazil, Montes Claros
Ana Sofia Almeida
2016-12-26
My answer is not about materials but about an architecture style that is prevailing here in Brazil, even in contexts completely diverse...
Thailand, Bangkok
Akarachai Padlom
2016-12-26
Townhouses in Bangkok are usually built by private developers. They usually build the same townhouse for more than 200 units in each...
India, New Delhi
AHMAD ANAS
2016-12-26
Hi, This the photo of DMRC- Delhi Rail Metro Corporation. A prime network and quite a lifeline in Delhi a world class infrastructure has...
United States, Boise
Samantha Martin
2016-12-22
I was first going to write on the very new construction in downtown Boise, Idaho of the J.R Simplot headquarters which is a global...
Canada, St. John's
Andrew McGrath
2016-12-22
I work in the construction industry and this is a picture I took of some 1½” galvanized steel anchor bolts for embedment in reinforced...
China, Shenzhen
Jannes Klaas
2016-12-21
This is one of the many new towers being built in Shenzhen China. The inner city towers are built in a very western / downtown NY style....
Thailand, Nakhon Pathom
Natkamon Tovanich
2016-12-20
Prince Mahidol Hall is a newly built concert hall located at Mahidol University in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. The structure is made of mostly...
Mexico, Tuxtla Gutiérrez
MARIA CASTANON
2016-12-20
One of the representative buildings of the city is the congress, this volume in spite of having vain causes the idea of being a solid,...
Philippines, Manila
Kiu, Louie Nathaniel
2016-12-17
<This is a section of the facade of the School of Design and Arts building where I study architecture in Manila.> Formally opened in...
France, Clamart
Pascal PEINE
2016-12-14
The new construction process si due to concrete and new materials for prevention from energy leaks and energy consumption reduction. The...
United Arab Emirates, Dubai
Roman Tschupp
2016-12-11
The building shown in the picture is the address hotel in Dubai, which is currently under construction. While it is being built by a...
Ecuador, Cuenca
Patricia Cazorla
2016-12-11
In the picture, a typical two story house in Cuenca-Ecuador is shown. The most traditional technic is the use of steel and reinforced...
Israel, Tel Aviv
Nadav Lasser
2016-12-09
This picture depicts the "pod" inside the Porter School of Environmental Studies, Tel Aviv University (design by Studio Geotectura -...
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
Abdullah Hawary
2016-12-08
In the photograph, the construction of the structure is using globalized steel reinforced concrete for the majority of the building....
Australia, Melbourne
Jako Roux
2016-12-08
Photo was taken of commercial buildings in Melbourne CBD. At the back - common construction of high rise buildings with steel, concrete...
Australia, Melbourne
Jako Roux
2016-12-08
Photo depicts some distinctive and different forms of construction. At the back - high rise, steel, concrete and glass. To the side more...
Argentina, Buenos Aires
Adrian Alejandro Gonzalez
2016-12-07
In the city of Buenos Aires, we find a great urban focus with a great history of more than 500 years, of which the last two hundred are...
India, Bengaluru
saranya Arumugam
2016-12-06
This photo was taken by me and it is in Bangalore, India. This steel structure is next to my office and hence I have posted the current...
Greece, Ioánnina
Christos Mytafides
2016-12-05
University of Ioannina Library
United States, Chicago
HeikeLob
2016-12-03
Chicago’s buildings are made of several different materials as can be seen on this picture. Also the Trump Tower of Chicago which was...
Kuwait, Kuwait City
Ahmed Abu Sreei
2016-12-03
As we see it's Al Hamra Tower which became the icon of Kuwait City. Actually there are huge difference between Kuwait local materials and...
Turkey, Ankara
Kubra Ozturk
2016-12-03
After having viewed the video over the topic of Building Construction, I want to share my ideas about constraction photo that I provided. ...
Brazil, Curitiba
Gisele Leal
2016-12-02
This picture was taken at Curitiba, Brazil. Reinforced concrete – One of the most used materials in the Brazilian construction, especially...
Brazil, Campinas
Pablo Costa
2016-11-28
This picture is from a green roof that I`ve made here in a house here in Campinas. The grass is a plant from Brazil (I don`t remember the...
United Kingdom, London
Hibon
2016-11-28
This picture was taken in Shoreditch, London where the whole district has been going through a rehabilitation project over the last 20...
Czech Republic, Brno
Filip Doseděl
2016-11-26
This photo shows the constuction of the new research facility in Brno (Czech Republic). Materials that are used to build this facility are...
United States, Columbia
Quinn Cunningham
2016-11-26
Here, I have finished construction of an 8x8x8-10 ft. shed which is now used to store recess equipment at a local school. The foundation is...
Honduras, Santa Bárbara
Pedro Pablo Ramirez Carias
2016-11-26
Location: Naranjito, Santa Barbara, Honduras URL Google map: https://www.google.com/maps/@14.9540445,-88.6830668,21z Photo Author: Pedro...
Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain
Jesse Francis
2016-11-24
This building is known as the National Academy for performance Arts. I choose it as the example for the involvement of the globalized...
United States, Sacramento
JZ Zhou
2016-11-24
Most steel tracks are imported from China and California may use Chinese technology to build its first high speed rail.
Australia, Sydney
Michael Basckin
2016-11-22
This picture shows a construction site in Sydney. The origin of the materials used in this construction is unknown - it is 'invisible...
France, Paris
Sociocognitive
2016-11-15
Photo from: http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/developer-unveils-plans-for-shipping-container-apartments-in-the-cedars-751246 Shipping...
United States, Waco
Wyatt Bogan
2016-11-15
I took this picture at a "Home Depot" store in Waco, Texas, USA. Living in the US, most of the material is made here. IE: Lumber,...
Poland, Poznań
Blazej Golacki
2016-11-15
"Construction used to be a localised activity, but with the advancement of construction processes and construction materials almost every...
Colombia, Bogotá
Maria Alejandra Diaz
2016-11-14
Hi This photo was taken in Bogota, Colombia. In Colombia, the most construction material used is concrete because we can find all the...
Canada, Vancouver
María Jesús Mora
2016-11-14
This photo is taken in one of the construction sites of the office where I work. Our office and also common in Canada, is very supportive...
Australia, Melbourne
Jordan Ross Currie
2016-11-14
(Photo not taken by me) This building is part of Melbourne's RMIT campus, located on Swanston st. The major building components are the...
Pakistan, Rawalpindi
Riaz Safdar
2016-11-13
Photo shows typical building construction activity in my city. Building materials include concrete, mortar and bricks.
Philippines, Balilihan
Patrick Andrew Y. Tanhuanco
2016-11-02
The photo uploaded is taken about a year ago at a remote community I visited in Barangay Cogon, Balilihan, Bohol, Philippines. The image...
South Africa, Johannesburg
Clive Shezi
2016-11-02
Disclaimer: The image is from search results on google of the province i live in, Gauteng, South Africa. The image shows low cost...
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Skopje
Ljupka
2016-10-31
This is a well known building in Prague, Czech Republic. The photo shows the Dancing House which is a real definition of a contrast in...
United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi
Aurore Delory
2016-10-30
I visited Abu Dhabi Sheikh Zayed Mosque in 2012 and for me it is an amazing example of this statement. The carpet, designed...
Algeria, Tizi Ouzou
Siyoucef Leila
2016-10-27
MODULE 04: BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. Task 01: "Construction used to be a localized activity, but with the advancement of construction...
Algeria, Tizi Ouzou
Siyoucef Leila
2016-10-27
MODULE 04: BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. Task 01: "Construction used to be a localized activity, but with the advancement of construction...
Belgium, Brussels
Gwenn Furlanetto
2016-10-27
I think that the majority of buildings here aren't nieuw. there are made of materials coming from the country, maybe not the closest...
India, Darbhanga
sushmita sushma
2016-10-25
this arch gate is from princly state of darbhanga.the prime construction material used are r.c.c ,bricks and cement.moreover brick surkhi...
Panama, Bocas del Toro
Azzet Ajram
2016-10-24
I chose this picture because it demonstrates a different construction approach that can be achieved in our country, this is not actually...
Nigeria, Lagos
Ikechukwu Bolum
2016-10-21
Aluminium Composite Panel for covering building exterior This is fast replacing paint and marble in many corporate buildings in Nigeria...
Italy, Milano
robertofavot
2016-10-21
in this picture you see the process of building a steel building, the building material was imported from countries where there are the raw...
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Tyler Lovejoy
2016-10-20
This photo was taken last summer during a trip to Hong Kong. The use of bamboo as scaffolding fascinated me for several reasons. First, as...
South Africa, Johannesburg
Lana Samuel
2016-10-16
Think Globally - act Locally :).... Here we go, One on Whiteley is a new building construction on the precinct (Melrose Arch). Photo is not...
South Africa, Johannesburg
Lana Samuel
2016-10-16
Think Globally - act Locally :).... Here we go, One on Whiteley is a new building construction on the precinct (Melrose Arch). Photo is not...
Spain, Valencia
Guillermp
2016-10-16
In this photo we can see one of the main buildings of the city of arts and science. "Construction used to be a localised activity, but...
Suriname, Paramaribo
Shariska Woodly
2016-10-13
This is an picture of a mosque. Clicked by me, in Paramaribo- Suriname. The mosque is made of concrete and the dome is made of copper.
Mexico, Barrio de Nuevo León
Cortés -Topete
2016-10-13
This building demostrates the use of a range materials from glass panels, concrete, steel to marble, natural stone. In this sense, this is...
Mexico, Chiapa de Corzo
Citlalli Calderón
2016-10-13
I choose this picture because it is an example of local construction embedded in a globalized world. The image shows the contrast between...
India, Pune
Akshay Marsute
2016-10-09
This is one of the buildings in high end residential complex in Pune. Main construction materials, concrete and glass are manufactured...
Colombia, Palmira
Juan Camilo Guarin Peñaranda
2016-10-07
I agree completely with the given statement, and I will present you a proof that it is right. The attached picture I show you is from...
Denmark, Copenhagen
Davide Maria Zema
2016-10-07
The picture shows the Copenhagen Arena by 3XN in Ørestad South, in particular we can see the construction phase going at the end. I shoot...