A ruined limestone kiln complex recalls the late-nineteenth-century exploitation of limestone at the Welsh quarry Gilwern.
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A ruined limestone kiln complex recalls the late-nineteenth-century exploitation of limestone at the Welsh quarry Gilwern.
Four concrete cooling towers flank the former Beringen mine power plant, the only preserved mine cooling towers in the Limburg mining region.
Four wooden cooling towers cooled thousands of cubic metres of water produced by the Hansa coking plant near Dortmund daily.
In Lanckensburg, on the German island of Rügen, German architect Paul Imberg erected an imposing granary tower in 1913.
Flemish workers flocked to Mouscron during the interwar to work in textile factories. The city, therefore, had to pull out all the stops to cope with the growing population.
Today, you won't find anything of the Pelican Bridge, a steel bridge kept in place with thousands of rivets across the Veurnevaart in Nieuwpoort.
The fortified town of Bitche is dominated by a citadel stretching out over a sandstone rock.
L'ouvrage du Four-à-Chaux was one of the gros ouvrages or large artillery works of the French Maginot Line. Yet almost nothing of it can be seen above ground.
For almost a century, the Veuve Van Enschodt bridge over the Rupel was the only connection between the Antwerp municipalities of Klein Willebroek and Boom.
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