"Venture deep inside the new skyway of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and it becomes clear that the bridge’s engineers have planned for the long term." A good read, and it's worth going to the interactive feature part too.

A Financial Times article on the construction of the Shard, including a sequence of construction photos, and some details about the way they plan to use an internal crane to finish the construction. Worth battling the FT's crazy article limits for.

Nice front page image from the First Post.

Article in SFGate about the tower crane operator at the Rincon Hill site. Now, if any SF dotcommies fancy posting photos to the Flickr Craneporn group...

Giant brick and crane collide in baffling photoshoot for random week

I always wondered what the name for this type of crane (as opposed to other tower cranes; see the left nav) was. Thanks to Ben Patio for enlightening me in a Flickr comment.