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Frigid December or not, Berlin’s infrastructure needs no warm-up act. From the Brandenburg Gate to the glass-roofed Hauptbahnhof, the city boasts a set of landmarks that showcase its resilience, reinvention, and engineering flair. And if...
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When Dennis Keeley joined the Dublin Fire Brigade in 1986, he was quickly introduced to a key piece of data-gathering technology. “We had this 6-inch nail in our control center where we’d impale and store the paper records of emergency...
With hundreds of bridges crossing valleys, railroads and the three major rivers that meet downtown, Pittsburgh embodies its nickname as the City of Bridges. These bridges are more than infrastructure—they’re proud symbols of connection and community. That pride was on...
Imagine stepping into a room where ancient aqueducts meet cityscapes conjured by generative AI, where stone roads lead to high-speed rail networks that emerge from a sea of data on a massive digital screen with just a few keystrokes. That’s...
Greg Demchak stood before an enormous LED screen in a dark hotel conference room. With a game controller and a keyboard, he moved his audience through a digital model of Barcelona. The glowing screen showed a bird’s-eye view of the...
Greg Demchak has two views from his desk on the 43rd floor of a glass tower in London. He can look down at the cityscape — the pale dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Victorian Gothic splendor of Tower Bridge...
The London skyline is hard to pin down. Turn your back on it even briefly and another skyscraper seems to pop up. It’s not an illusion. The Standard newspaper reports that every 10 days, on average, another 20-story-plus building gets...
In the heart of California’s eastern foothills, where the Sierra Nevada Mountains meet the Tahoe National Forest, the impressive New Bullards Bar Dam stands tall. Soaring to a height of 645 feet, it not only dominates the landscape but also...
There’s no escaping the barrage of news related to climate change: deadly floods around the world; drought, famine and conflict in Africa; wildfires in Hawaii and Australia. Just last week, a series of storms slammed Dubai and drenched the desert...
On April 18, 1506, Pope Julius II laid the cornerstone of the world’s largest church on the burial place of the Apostle Peter in Vatican City. More than five hundred years later, every detail of the magnificent cathedral built upon...
On the evening of August 3, in the heart of Christchurch, New Zealand, a line of choristers, donned in hard hats and orange safety vests, navigated past scaffolding adorned with cautionary safety tape. Their destination: the battered nave of Christ...
