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Twenty years in the making, EarthCam pays tribute to the World Trade Center site with an epic time-lapse video

2021-09-10T15:32:00-04:00

Twenty years after 9/11, the popular geographic livestream site EarthCam has revealed its commemoration of the tragedy using footage taken from two decades of loss and rebuilding.

EarthCam founder Brian Cury installed the camera in the days following the attacks to document the monumental recovery effort taking place in lower Tribeca. The twenty-five-year-old company, which is headquartered just across the Hudson in Upper Saddle River, NJ, has been continuously recording the site since then, making it the longest-running time-lapse project in EarthCam history.

Now, with unseen footage taken by cameras that captured every day of the past twenty years in thirteen million individual photographs, the interregnum has been reduced to a six-minute encapsulation of the transformation of the sixteen-acre site from an active crime scene to an eerie void and finally to its current form as a tourist destination and memory site visited by over 6.5 million people per year.

“This creative time-lap...

Frank Gehry's The Grand: watch this time-lapse video of the massive 15-hour foundation concrete pour

2019-07-02T14:11:00-04:00

Construction is ramping up on a major mixed-use development in Downtown designed by Frank Gehry. Over the weekend, the one of two concrete pours was completed at The Grand, laying down the foundation for the project’s 39-story residential tower. When finished, the Bunker Hill tower will hold 400 housing units, 20 percent of them affordable units.

Photo: Weldon Brewster, image courtesy of Related-CORE.

Curbed Los Angeles reports that the first of two mat foundation pours for the residential tower of the enormous Gehry-designed The Grand project took "15 hours, and required about 140 workers and 1,348 trucks," installing 13,478 cubic yards of concrete, roughly 27,000 tons, altogether.

Photo: Weldon Brewster, image courtesy of Related-CORE.

"The mat foundation pour is an incredibly important construction milestone as it marks the beginning of the vertical construction," said Rick Vogel, project lead and senior vice president at Related Urban, the mixed-use arm of the developer behind the project, Related Companies.

Photo: Weldon Brewster, image courtesy of Related-CORE.

"We are honored to have celebrated the momentous event alongside The Grand’s workforce on Friday, as this is a project with an important purpose – it will further connect Grand Avenue, offer an array of unique experiences to visitors, and truly enhance the current...

A remarkable time lapse video of Los Angeles

2016-08-18T13:56:00-04:00

From the Venice Canals to the detritus-strewn cliffs overlooking downtown to the interior of a hospital, this time lapse video by Mason Thibo surveys the edgy splendor of Los Angeles, allowing a glimpse not only of the city's extraordinary variety of neighborhoods, but the way people (and vehicles) interact with each zone. It's a kind of gorgeous panorama of how infrastructure, recreational areas, institutional facilities and residential neighborhoods combine to form the U.S.'s second largest metropolis:

11 years of One World Trade Center construction in one short time-lapse video

2015-06-05T18:33:00-04:00

Say what you want about One World Trade Center (and much has already been said here on Archinect), but it sure is a heck of a construction project.

From the laying of the symbolic cornerstone on July 4, 2004 to the recent opening of One World Observatory on May 29, 2015, it took the tower eleven years to fully push its 104 floors into the world.

A fascinating new EarthCam time-lapse video now presents the lengthy building process in a handy less-than-two-minute montage.

Scroll on for some screen shots and the video below.

Hidden cameras in Berlin will record century of urban development

2014-07-30T19:15:00-04:00

As we speak, pinhole cameras are being placed in secret locations all over Berlin. Each will each take a single photograph with a 100-year exposure. Volunteers will place the cameras in neighborhoods throughout the city, keeping the location a closely guarded secret until they grow old or ill, at which time they will pass the information on to someone in the next generation. In 2114, the people they’ve told will retrieve the cameras from their hiding spots

Time-Lapse of San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Construction

2013-09-04T13:56:00-04:00

The much anticipated—and wildly criticized—San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge finally opened to the public earlier this week (previously on Archinect).

See 42,000 hours of bridge construction compressed to a compact 4-minute time-lapse video below.

Masonic Amphitheatre Construction Time Lapse

2012-07-10T16:23:00-04:00

This video documents the construction of the Masonic Amphitheatre in Clifton Forge, VA. The project was designed and built by 16 students from Virginia Tech's design/buildLAB, helmed by Keith and Marie Zawistowski. The video was put together by photographer Jeff Goldeberg of Esto.

For more about the Masonic Ampitheatre project, visit Virginia Tech's design/buildLAB blog.