Dr Daniel, Photon Shepherd🇸🇪🇦🇺
Trammell HudsonHello from the top of Köln
You might think your software project is going slow, but for comparison the masonry work was finished circa 1300 and the iron work completed around five hundred years later.
pyroclastic surge@th there was also a bunch of fabolous shade being thrown around it taking so long, i.e. this: https://kalliope.org/da/text/heine2001102266a where heinrich heine, one of the most famous german poets is thinking that it may become a stable for horses at some point
Heinrich Heine
Kalliope er en database indeholdende ældre dansk lyrik samt biografiske oplysninger om danske digtere. Målet er intet mindre end at samle hele den ældre danske lyrik, men indtil videre indeholder Kalliope et forhåbentligt repræsentativt, og stadigt voksende, udvalg af den danske digtning.
abadidea@th there’s a church in Leiden where they ran out of stonework budget and finished it with a wooden tower, to be replaced at earliest convenience.
it’s been hundreds of years and it’s still wood.
I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥@0xabad1dea @th What's another couple hundred years?
Owlor 
@0xabad1dea @th When people say "nothing is as permanent as a temporary solution", they really mean it!
Kat S@0xabad1dea @th Ah, the old trap of a temporary fix that works.
Szymon Sokół 🇵🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦@0xabad1dea @th The cathedral in Malaga, Spain, which I visited a month ago, was built in 1528-1782 period and left without roof. Only now they started building the roof to prevent leaks through the ceiling vaults: https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/malaga-city/this-how-the-roof-malaga-cathedral-growing-20250211080830-nt.html
Stumpy The Mutt@blotosmetek @0xabad1dea @th That makes the construction pace of Sagrada Familia in Barcelona look speedy by comparison!
Marc Haber@th Project halted/stripped down for Budget Reasons. We all know that.
Anna Spanner 👩🏫🇪🇺🧪@th Thank you for sharing! The interior of Salisbury Cathedral tower still has the wooden scaffolding they put up 800 years ago. Incredible to see the next stage - I wonder if iron was ever really considered for Salisbury.
(To replace the aircraft warning lights or the anemometer at the top, someone has to climb this structure until it’s too narrow for a human to fit and then go outside. https://youtu.be/kzi_M1dzxYQ?si=_HY0Tk2LaheKM_t2 I’m lying down and my knees have gone!)
Marcos Dione@Annaspanner @th on the 2nd photo, it seems like they replaced all the rungs except the 2nd from the top!
@Annaspanner @th wood, apparently, like the rest of the ladder. I just noticed that you can also see a similar rung at the bottom of the first pic, and that one seems complete. The one on the second pic seems to have lost part of the 'fancy' shape following the vein of the wood.
gkrnours
phooky
quaewpos
Wylan
AntifAb
NormanDunbar@th Too high up for me!
Nice photo though.
Meznor UNGRATEFUL MIDDLE POWER@th I am visiting in the summer! 😀 😍
Mab_813
Kensan_Oni@th How would you properly say “Please get me down from here?” That looks both breath taking and absolutely frightening.
rexi
Lot⁴⁹
oscarfalconHello!
roh'signal@th Great Pic of the Kölner Dom... have a lovely time in Cologne – the weather’s just perfect for sightseeing ;-)