57 Examples Of Such Brilliant Infrastructure That It Deserves To Be Celebrated (New Pics)

If you think that infrastructure can’t be cool, think again. Transport systems, public utilities, telecommunications, and various facilities might sound dull and dreary on the surface, but that’s not the case. Not only are they vital to keep civilization healthy and society functioning, but they can also look incredibly impressive from a design perspective.

Today, we’re showcasing some of the most out-of-the-box examples of infrastructure from all over the globe, as showcased on this brilliant online group. Scroll down for some awesome sights. And if you have any friends who are engineers or are really into architecture and design, be sure to share the pics with them, too.

#1 Holland, Michigan’s Downtown Has Heated Streets And Sidewalks That Melt Snow And Ice

The system utilizes wastewater from a nearby power plant which circulates through 120 miles of plastic piping underneath the pavement. It can melt an inch of snow in an hour even at 20 degrees Fahrenheit… No salt!

57 Examples Of Such Brilliant Infrastructure That It Deserves To Be Celebrated (New Pics)

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#2 Progress vs. Progress

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#3 Chiba Suspended Monorail, Tokyo Metropolitan Area

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#4 Highway Turned Into A Canal In Utrecht, Netherlands

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#5 Sart Canal Bridge, Belgium… So Surreal, So Serene

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#6 The Monorail In Chiba, In Tokyo’s Suburbs

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#7 Wave Pedestrian Bridge – Kyiv, Ukraine

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#8 This Is What A Highspeed Rail Line Cutting Through A Plateau Looks Like, Ningxia Province, China

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#9 Bus Lanes In Essen, Germany

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#10 Boston – Big Dig Before vs. After

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#11 Layers

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#12 The Longest Highspeed Rail Line In The World Crossing A Desert. Lanzhou- Xinjiang Railway

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#13 Saale-Elster-Talbrücke, Germany’s Longest Railway Bridge And Also Europe’s Longest Highspeed-Rail Bridge

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#14 Animal Crossing In Bydgoszcz, Poland

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#15 At Nearly 24 Miles Long, The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway In Louisiana Stands As The Longest Continuous Bridge Over Water In The World

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#16 Infrastructure That Never Was : The City Of Cincinnati Started To Build A Rapid Transit System In The 1920s But Only Completed Seven Miles Of Subway Lines Before The Project Was Abandoned

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#17 The Age Of Walls Overlooking The Age Of Bridges, Highspeed Train, Beijing, China

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#18 Bridge In The Netherlands

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#19 Map Of La Plata, Argentina. One Of The Best Planned Cities In The World

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#20 Mass Timber Parking In Wendlingen, Germany

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#21 Turning Off Niagara Falls For The First Time In 12,000 Years 1969

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#22 Dutch Roundabout With Center Bus Lane

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#23 London Sanitation Engineers Overseeing New Sewer Construction Following The Great Stink Of 1858

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#24 Three Gorges Dam, World’s Largest Hydro-Power Project

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#25 Nouvelle Route Du Littoral, Most Expensive Road Of The World In Réunion Island, France

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#26 Favourite Airport Layout/Design? Midway Airport, Chicago

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#27 Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge, China

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#28 The Marenostrum Supercomputer

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#29 Amsterdam Netherlands In 1971 vs. 2020

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#30 Takaosan Highway Interchange, Tokyo

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#31 The Bike Lane In Downtown Seattle

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#32 Infrastructure P**n Or Ugly?

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#33 Five Way Streetcar Junction Being Built In Toronto, 1923

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#34 The New Gordie Howe Bridge Progresses Across The Detroit River

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#35 Retro-Future Infrastructure: A 1913 Vision Of A Five-Storied, Six Level Super Street In New York, With The Claim That It Would ‘Increase The Efficiency Of Business Traffic By 25 Percent

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#36 Shonan Monorail, Near Tokyo, Japan

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#37 Jiangsu, China

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#38 Monorail Under Construction In Monterrey, Mexico

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#39 The Monorail In Wuppertal, Germany

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#40 Chongqing East Railway Station

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#41 Nanjing South Railway Station

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#42 Frigid Passage: The Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw Cuts A Track Through 30 Inches Of Fast Ice On Lake Michigan’s Green Bay

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#43 Earthquake In Japan Raises The Manhole Above Ground

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#44 Palo Verde Nuclear Powerplant, USA’s Largest Thermal Powerplant And 2nd Largest Of Any Powerplant

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#45 Łódź, Poland

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#46 Somewhere In China

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#47 Herzegovina Bridge, Bosnia And Herzegovina

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#48 The Gordie Howe International Bridge In Detroit, Oct. 24, 2022

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#49 Tokyo Monrail

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#50 Monorail Line Construction In Monterrey, Mexico

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#51 Anji Khad Bridge- India’s First Cable-Stayed Railway Bridge

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#52 The Highway Bridge Damaged By The Earthquake And Its New Route

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#53 New Highway In China

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#54 I Find Some Beauty In Road Interchanges

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#55 3 Train Systems In Bangkok

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#56 Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge Under Construction, New York City

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#57 This Interchange In Uae That Seems A Bit Too Big

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