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Cranes in the Sky

Chris Gardner — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:48:50 +0000

It’s the wave of the future they say, the Potain Crane.

I had a blast photographing the delivery and erection of this Potain Crane on Chapel St. in ‘ole New Haven last week. The crane sits on a concrete pad in front of Street Hall, a second to another in front of the Swartout building. These cranes support the renovation of both buildings as part to the Yale University Art Gallery renovation and expansion that started with the Kahn building.

The crane erection was an amazing process that started at 7am with setting up the support crane (the yellow one with wheels), and finished at 4pm. Note that the crane I photographed sits low on a concrete pad and up the street the first crane is high on a box structure – so they are at different heights. This makes sense when you see at day end they test crossed the cranes. All folded up the Potain Crane stands up and unfolds all via remote control. I’ll resist a boys and toys comment, as the crane/process is actually rather elegant.

Check out the image gallery and you can see the process unfold. Click on the screen grab image.

Construction Crane Erection Gallery

Thanks to the kind folks at Dimeo for letting me on site. And of course Leslie the Yale Art Gallery for having out for the day.

Chris

Gilead Room

Chris Gardner — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:00:25 +0000

A very rainy day, but it was dry inside a huge ex-Bayer building on Yale’s West Campus. This is the conservation and pre-assembly of the Gilead Room from the Young’s family house, from Gilead, Connecticut. Photographed this for a future published story on the West Campus complex. I’ll hopefully have more on that later this spring/summer.

The Art Gallery art handlers had just recently put all the main pieces together and removed cardboard that had been protecting the floor boards. You can see all the parts pre-assembly here (scroll down some, not my image so come back). The framed in room will be taken apart after some more conservation and reinstalled at the Yale Art Gallery in a year or two. The open wall sections and ceiling will be plastered in once reinstalled. Cool!

Above on East Side	Wide View	Higher View
South Side

Thanks to Emily, Eric, and Tom for letting me into their secluded workspace.

Chris

Nail in the Coffin – New Haven, CT

Chris Gardner — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:58:27 +0000

Okay, this is it. Grand views of New Haven, CT. Also for Yale Alumni Magazine. Something should be on the cover, but not sure what. Everything I photographed can be seen here in a little slideshow.

New Haven, CT at night

NH Panorama

Chris

Hangin off A+A building, NH

Chris Gardner — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:14:32 +0000

I didn’t make enough production views of recent New Haven project for theYale Alumni Magazine, but this is maybe about as exciting from behind the scenes as it got anyway. Nothing like setting $15,000+ worth of gear an inch from a six story drop. At least one of the images will be used in the issue (should be May/June, I believe).

Finished shot number one.>>
Finished shot number two below.

Chapel and State – “Becker Building Site”

Chris Gardner — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:48:36 +0000

Walking around, what angle, scouting shots. Well how about up there from that window? This is a setup and shot for a Yale Alumni Magazine issue on New Haven.

Thanks to the staff at the Odonnell Company for lending me their view (esp. Jess Smith). You can see the final image and some of the before post parts here.

Round top window’s the port hole on this one.