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86 images Created 21 May 2010

Works, by Richard Baker.

An ongoing theme (started in May 2010) about the incongruity of roadworks, of disruption, health & safety and urban signage.

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  • A construction workman supervises the lifting of materials, seen through a rectangular yellow site window, on 14th September 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • A construction site contractor drops heavy chains that he's been carrying along the street, in front of a hoarding featuring many faces.
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  • A Stop / Go banksman dressed in a high-vis suit stands on a public road for oncoming traffic
    stop_go_man01-19-05-2010.jpg
  • Seen from an aerial view, a workman contractor emerges from underground to street level through the uncovered pavement in Victoria, on 28th April 2022, in London, England.
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  • At a road junction, contractors drag cables along underground channels in Railton Road, Brixton.
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  • BT workmen attend to repairs or maintenance on a street pavement while a jogger nearby stretches his hamstrings on a railing.
    workmen_jogger03-15-04-2013.jpg
  • Contractor inspects underground cabling within manhole in a London street.
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  • Tourists and a stone mason chips away at a cavity in damaged pavement, surrounded by hazzard tape in Trafalgar Square, central London.
    trafalgar_works07-03-09-2015.jpg
  • Workmen from Stewart Signs lay out temporary printed media to be hung outside a Dior shop being refurbished in central London.
    dior_hoarding19-27-03-2015.jpg
  • Blurred passengers pass a workman occupies a small fence during works on the concourse by the platforms in Waterloo station.
    waterloo_works02-22-06-2012.jpg
  • Scaffolding equipment and flower bed during renovation work at a block of flats in the property's garden.
    scaffolding_flowers03-19-08-2010.jpg
  • A building worker bends and attends to a panel while converting a high-street shop in London's Covent Garden.
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  • Workmen clear away sexist ad posters lie on a London street after being removed from a refurbished shop construction site.
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  • Construction crew grind at the road surface surrounded by diagonals of red and white stripes of their works site.
    city_roadworks02-22-03-2012.jpg
  • Temporary masking tape sticking works project plastic tape in London's Southbank.
    south_bank03-22-06-2012.jpg
  • Brushes and bucket on the ground, surrounded by hazzard tape in Trafalgar Square, central London.
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  • A member of the public admires Nelson's Column, beneath hazard tape that covers repairs to granite stonework of the plinth to Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, on 17th February 2023, in London, England.
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  • Street sweeper echoes Venice gondoleer on hoarding of  Credit Suisse-sponsored Canaletto exhibition, National Gallery.
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  • Maintenance work is carried out in a London estate with statue artwork taped-off.
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  • Roadworks and construction fencing in London's Chinatown with paper lanterns hanging in background before Moon Festival.
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  • Three pedestrian signs show differing directions for passers-by in London's Cannon Street during pavement refurbishment.
    pedestrian_confusion01-23-02-2012.jpg
  • Workman bends into hole behind industrial screen in Florence street.
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  • Roadworks and hole dug in central London.
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  • The shadow from construction netting on a pedestrian pavement in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 25th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • Southbank festival display with western tools propped up against showing Indian worker from developing world.
    works_poster02-22-06-2012.jpg
  • London contractor workmen close construction site screens, showing a new development at Leicester Square for 2012.
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  • Two contractors lay fresh paving stones from behind protective street health & safety barriers.
    roadworks02-14-09-2010.jpg
  • Construction work by McAlpine makes for an incongruous landscape in Victoria Street, London. Sir Robert McAlpine is a leading UK building and civil engineering company. It carries out engineering and construction for the oil and gas, petrochemical, power generation, nuclear, pharmaceutical, defence, chemical, water and mining industries. The company was founded in 1869 by Sir Robert McAlpine, who was known as "Concrete Bob".
    McAlpine04-06-05-2010.jpg
  • Roadworks connected to the Crossrail construction project at Tottenham Court Road, central London.
    workmen02-16-11-2010.jpg
  • Real passing construction worker and a scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways during street improvements in Victoria, central London.
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  • Workmen fix triangular-shaped cladding to the exterior of a part of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-27-27-10-2017.jpg
  • A workman paints black railings outside the National Portrait Gallery in the central London borough of Westminster, England.
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  • Workman carries construction fencing panel past bending maintenance man in Trafalgar Square.
    workman_fencing01-19-03-2012.jpg
  • A contractor carries heavy and awkward sheets of glass from an office in Finsbury Street EC2, on 21st August 2018, in London, England.
    carrying_glass-04-21-08-2018.jpg
  • Construction barrier and Libyan postal stamp mural image.
    city_barrier02-23-10-2012.jpg
  • Construction workers in Central Hong Kong carry on working during a monsoonal rain shower on the last day of British rule.
    hong_kong_construction01-30-06-1997.jpg
  • Businessman with corporate umbrella passes beneath a new construction project in London's financial district, the Square Mile.
    city_businessmen04-27-04-2012.jpg
  • Red and white striped construction barrier and artwork of an eco leaf created by contractor Galliford Try in central LOndon. Galliford Try was been selected by Green Property (UK) Ltd for a £27 million project, to create 100,000 sq ft of Category A office space in St James's Park.
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  • The faces on a construction site hoarding peer over a contractor's pile of tarmac in the back of a small truck.
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  • Construction hoarding and London cityscape showing the capital at The Pinnacle project on Bishopsgate in the City of London. Construction work has been suspended again on the Pinnacle in the City of London. Contractor Brookfield is understood to have been told to stop work following more funding concerns over the Square Mile's tallest tower. Brookfield restarted work last September after developer Arab Investments put together a new finance package. But a lack of a pre-let tenant has now caused further delays on site leaving Byrne Bros concrete cores standing idle. The Bishopsgate Tower, informally referred to as The Pinnacle, was to be a 288 m (945 ft), 64-storey skyscraper in the centre of London's main financial district.
    london_pinnacle05-07-02-2013.jpg
  • National Grid gas works van and passers-by in the busy Oxford Circus in central London.
    gas_works04-04-12-2012.jpg
  • Construction landscape of tape and newly-painted concrete barrier on City street corner.
    construction_barrier01-19-02-2014.jpg
  • Cones and a hoarding showing the Thames River, Millennium Bridge and Tate Modern.
    blackfriars_regeneration02-17-08-201...jpg
  • Real remembrance wreaths on the ground at the foot of a black and white vintage era photograph that shows the Cenotaph, currently hiding the real monument being renovated in London's Whitehall.
    cenotaph_landscape04-10-06-2013.jpg
  • The large construction project known as the Pinnacle, on Bishopsgate in the financial City of London. Construction work has been suspended again on the Pinnacle in the City of London. Contractor Brookfield is understood to have been told to stop work following more funding concerns over the Square Mile's tallest tower. Brookfield restarted work last September after developer Arab Investments put together a new finance package. But a lack of a pre-let tenant has now caused further delays on site leaving Byrne Bros concrete cores standing idle. The Bishopsgate Tower, informally referred to as The Pinnacle, was to be a 288 m (945 ft), 64-storey skyscraper in the centre of London's main financial district.
    city_landscape09-30-01-2013.jpg
  • An excavator and aspirational poster on wall during building of 2012 Olympic Westfield City shopping centre, Stratford. A glamorous woman representing the good times - wealth and beauty and the symbols of affluence - while the working Man is seen small in comparison, the downtrodden Man. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector..
    olympic_stratford31-15-03-2012.jpg
  • Construction workman and tourists beneath renaissance art  poster in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. .
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  • London's Southbank Festival of the World designs being stuck to concrete underpass wall.
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  • A reproduction of the painting called 'Portrait of Francesco I de' Medici ' which was painted by Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino in 1551, now adorns a construction hoarding screen, with plastic blue piping in a Florence side street, the original hanging in the Uffizi. Born in Florence, he was the son of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleonora di Toledo, and served as regent for his father starting in 1564. He went on to become grand Duke of Tuscany and marry his Venetian mistress, Bianca Cappello, after aptly disposing of her husband, a Florentine bureaucrat. Francesco and Bianca died on the same day. Although the original death certificates mention malaria, it has been widely speculated that the couple was poisoned.
    florence_italy27-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Artwork of electricity power cables and their shadows on a house wall.
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  • red netting draped across street construction with patterns formed by their shadows.
    construction_shadows05-29-12-2013.jpg
  • A Portaloo is closed off near railway arches in a central London street
    portaloo02-24-06-2010.jpg
  • Workmen shovel unknown materials inside screened work area above Men at Work sign.
    workmen01-05-10-2010.jpg
  • Roadworks signs below a fashion poster featuring a young woman about to cross a road in a utopian fantasy.
    oasis_poster02-16-04-2014.jpg
  • A visual pun showing traffic signs that tell passing motorists of a narrowing lane closure, and a construction hoarding for the clothing retailer GAP, on Shaftesbury Avenue, on 24th September, in London, England.
    traffic_signs01-23-09-2020.jpg
  • Pedestrians walk between sets of accordion-style Turtle Gates which are positioned across the pavement, ready to be unfolded by construction Banksmen during building work in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 27th July 2022, in London, England.
    city_works-08-27-07-2022.jpg
  • UK Power Networks laying high-voltage cable in central London with reflective corporate backdrop behind.
    electricity_cable09-02-04-2012.jpg
  • A workman tips broken up concrete on to a growing pile of construction rubble near an skyline illustration of the City of London.
    city_construction02-21-02-2014.jpg
  • Workman feeds yellow plastic tubing through an under pavement shaft to clear blockage beneath round pastry post ad..
    cable_works03-19-03-2012.jpg
  • Workmen make repairs outside the Whitehall Theatre in Westminster, on 26th March 2019, in London, England
    bus_views-09-26-03-2019.jpg
  • Aerial view of roadworks disruption and orange circle theme.
    aerial_roadworks01-26-02-2014.jpg
  • A contractor works on a new shop front, behind barriers during works disruption of a pavement on Charing Cross Road in the West End, on 16th November 2022, in London, England.
    shop_works-4-16-11-2022.jpg
  • Coils of plastic cable casings and roadworks signs all tidied away behind fencing in a south London side street, Southwark.
    roadworks01-11-01-2012.jpg
  • Detail of a bike symbol partially obliterated by roadworks on Tottencourt Court Road, on 3rd August 2017, in London, England.
    cycle_lane-06-03-08-2017.jpg
  • Construction workmen with a 'Stop Go' sign to help traffic flow plus a coincidental 'no lights' sign at a closed crossing.
    no_lights02-16-05-2013.jpg
  • James Bond and fantasy theme characters' faces from "Rise of the Guardians" in London's Leicester Square. The DreamWorks production is a 2012 3D computer-animated fantasy-adventure film based on William Joyce's The Guardians of Childhood book series and The Man in the Moon short film by Joyce and Reel FX.
    leicester_square01-04-12-2012.jpg
  • Worker with contractor company Cousins paints metalwork within coned and taped-off site area in the financial City of London.
    city_streets05-31-01-2013.jpg
  • A construction site workman passes an item to his colleague by yellow temporary container offices.
    construction_site01-17-02-2011.jpg
  • Construction workers and large blue panel in London street.
    blue_construction04-18-01-2011.jpg
  • A machine operator gives the standard hand signal to a crane driver from inside enclosed equipment cleaning the stone work surfaces of an address in Aldwych WC2, on 2nd May 2019, in London, England.
    building_cleaners-02-02-05-2019.jpg
  • Pavement repairs and pedestrian signs in the City of London
    roadworks02-26-05-2010.jpg
  • Workmen in hi-visibility clothing carry a blue wiring reel, coincidentally the same colour as a construction container.
    city_workmen02-13-08-2014.jpg
  • Construction worker and temporary works site landscape in Paddington, central London.
    construction_landscape02-03-03-2014.jpg
  • Construction workers on site behind barrier fencing beneath cartoon character in Wardour Street, London.
    construction_site01-20-01-2011.jpg
  • Workmen carefully take a hired dumpster through London's Leicester Square in front the M&Ms retail outlet.
    city_workmen2-01-11-2011.jpg
  • Construction fencing among the historical Victorian headstones of Bunhill Fields cemetery in the City of London.
    bunhill_cemetery03-26-05-2010.jpg
  • Next to a freshly-dug grave covered with traffic bollards is a recent plot for a boy n Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of Victorian society from the industrial age. During this annual open day, it is an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery17-16-05-2009.jpg
  • A sawn-off tree trunk is left on the pavement, taped up for health & safety reasons near progress of new car park architecture.
    city_tree-20-10-2002.jpg
  • Surveyor dressed in orange high-vis suit stands outside Soho sex bookshop.
    sex_shop02-06-10-2010.jpg
  • A construction site's hoarding has arrows that point toward the company banksman who acts as watchman and security guard.
    banksman-20-10-2002.jpg
  • Engineering struts await use on a City of London construction site.
    city_poles02-20-10-2002.jpg
  • The sign for an Assembly Point is on a white wall, cracked and unsafe near a construction site.
    cracked_wall-20-10-2002.jpg
  • Construction safety sheeting with plain tree shadow at a Skanska building project in Finsbury Circus.
    skanska_site05-24-02-2012.jpg
  • A building site Banksman's lollipop sign that usually tells road-users to allow for turning construction traffic, is tied upside down on to a post in the street on Sun Street near Liverpool Street Station in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 8th August, in London, England.
    british_people-18-08-08-2019.jpg
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  • A telecoms engineer for an unknown company works at the kerbside in a Waterloo street during a rain shower in south London, on 23rd November 2022, in London, England.
    telecoms_engineer-1-23-11-2022.jpg
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