Addis Ababa (ኣዲስ ኣበባ) | Ethiopia | City Gallery

[Tarrex]

[Tbite]

Nice.
2, 4, 6, 8, who do we appreciate, "ADDIS"

[African Lion]

I will be going this september an plan on taking a million pictures. Ill post them up. "Addise", pronounced "Addis Ava", and also called "Finfinne".

[African Lion]

The city does seem to lack public space. not to many parks and reacreational areas because of realtors.

[Carver02]

Originally Posted by African Lion

The city does seem to lack public space. not to many parks and reacreational areas because of realtors.

Yes, it does lack parks. But they are getting better about it. There is a park being built near the northern end of Entoto Rd.

[StormShadow]

AA-2007

[skipperBill]

^ Storm Shadow continues to impress...

glad to see nothing has changed in the last yr. or so..lol..

[DanteXavier]

[StormShadow]

Originally Posted by skipperBill

^ Storm Shadow continues to impress...

glad to see nothing has changed in the last yr. or so..lol..

Thanks, thanks. I try to do my best to contribute to the forum.

Good images DX.

[NickABQ]

Addis looks mind-blowing! Definately one of my top destinations!

[naijalove]

This is very beautiful.

[StormShadow]

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[Kingofthehill]

a few pictures, old and new from flickr.

Meskel Square
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Bole Road
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New building going upimage hosted on flickr


Random roundaboutimage hosted on flickr


Random intersectionimage hosted on flickr


View from Sheratonimage hosted on flickr


Shiny new buildingimage hosted on flickr


Bus stopimage hosted on flickr


New airport terminalimage hosted on flickr


inside new airport terminalimage hosted on flickr


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random new buildingimage hosted on flickr


building u/cimage hosted on flickr


fairly modern shopping centreimage hosted on flickr


friendship centre
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new structure near marketimage hosted on flickr

[Kenguy]

Addis is surely going up!!!

[African Lion]

a lot more changes then the last time. Addis is catching up to the other African cities and cant wait until I get there. now all ethiopia needs is 5 more addis ababas.

[African Lion]

Thanks storm shadow!!!!! a lot more changes then the last time. Addis is catching up to the other African cities and cant wait until I get there. now all ethiopia needs is 5 more addis ababas.

[Tarrex]

This building belongs to the AU
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The new AU conference center is going to replace the old one (sorry for the tiny picture)

AA at night

Private school

Piazza

United nations

[African Lion]

That second from last pictures project looks nice. Whats up with them using banbo sticks to make buildings You always see steel supports everywhere else, oh well whatever works i guess.

[Kenguy]

Originally Posted by African Lion

That second from last pictures project looks nice. Whats up with them using banbo sticks to make buildings You always see steel supports everywhere else, oh well whatever works i guess.

They are used in some parts of Asia too. But all the same, Im loving the way addis is coming up.

[Carver02]

Originally Posted by Kenguy

They are used in some parts of Asia too. But all the same, Im loving the way addis is coming up.

Hong Kong's spidermen
Reuters



The scaffolding shakes as Sam Chan strides along an 8-foot-long bamboo pole positioned 50 floors above Hong Kong's bustling streets.

Twisting and pulling hard at a black nylon cord, he secures another vertical bamboo pole into place, his leg hooked instinctively around a fixed point. He's been making good progress with his crew in building this lattice in the sky.

"It's just a regular job," he said, glancing out briefly at the skyline behind him and the tiny ships gliding across Victoria Harbour.

Chan, a 34-year-old high-school dropout, has one of Hong Kong's most vertiginous and challenging blue-collar jobs.

He's one of around 4,000 scaffolding workers who spend their working lives dangling outside some of the world's tallest buildings.

The peculiar skills and mental traits required of a scaffolder have kept the profession relatively exclusive and well paid, despite a recent construction slump.

Wages range from $45 (Dh165) a day for apprentices to $100 (Dh367) for masters or "sifu" like Sam. "[Scaffolding workers] have to possess physical endurance, courage... and perseverance," says Chiu Kwok-leung, chairman of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Bamboo Scaffolding Workers Union.

"Can you imagine? We build from the ground up ... every day we climb upwards unceasingly. We need great determination."

The craft, which dates back centuries to mainland China, is not exclusive to Hong Kong. It is practised across China and in countries in Southeast Asia, including Thailand and Singapore.

But Hong Kong, with perhaps the world's greatest concentration of tall buildings, owes a special debt to the humble bamboo pole. Without it, few buildings could be finished or renovated.

Whilst the West prefers metal scaffolding, the great heights of buildings in Hong Kong make this a cumbersome, impractical option.

By using light, cheap and abundant bamboo cut from southern China, small teams of scaffolders are able to sheathe entire buildings in a matter of weeks. Major engineering and construction advances through the years have failed to diminish the city's reliance on the low-tech pole.

"[We] have played a major role in Hong Kong's overall prosperity," said Chiu. Scaffolding instructor Tang Sung-yuen says the trade will continue to endure, even as the city modernises. "In Hong Kong, we will always be needed," he said.

But this has come at a price. In the past 6 years, there have been 20 deaths involving scaffolders, including one of Chiu's apprentices who fell three floors from a building in 2002. Chiu says "negative price competition" among scaffolding firms in recent years has led to lapses in safety standards, with workers rushing jobs to cover their costs.

source: http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles.../10069238.html

50 floors, that's impressive.