Imagination sparks ideas, but turning those ideas into massive, real-world projects takes serious effort. From towering buildings to sprawling highways and complex railway systems, large-scale structures are incredible achievements on their own.
This Reddit community is dedicated to showcasing these impressive and unique creations from around the world. Each one reflects the skill, precision, and dedication of engineers and architects who made them possible. Scroll down to explore more remarkable projects — and if this kind of work fascinates you, be sure to check out more articles like this.
#1 San Francisco Infrastructure
#2 Solar panels being installed over canals in India. It prevents water evaporation, doesn’t use extra land and keeps solar panels cooler.
#3 ThyssenKrupp elevators test tower in Guangzhou, China
#4 Mass timber parking in Wendlingen, Germany
#5 Crab overpass on Christmas Island, preventing migrating crabs from getting ran over.
#6 This not a town, this is a single chemical plant in Burghausen, Germany (Wacker Chemie AG)
#7 The power lines over Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana illustrate very well that Earth is not flat
#8 Jacksonville, Florida Interchange
#9 Conveyor belt of the Obed Mountain Mine in Alberta, Canada. Regardless of it being a coal mine I just think the conveyor belt is kind of neat
#10 Roundabout and bicycle bridge in the Netherlands
#11 Seeing too many highways again, so heres what good infrastructure looks like: The Gotthard Base Tunnel
#12 Kechut Reservoir, Jermuk, Armenia
#13 Under Construction Chenab Railway Bridge, Jammu and Kashmir, India
#14 Storseisundet Bridge – Norway
#15 The Stockholm Telephone Tower with approximately 5,500 telephone lines, 1890
#16 Amager Bakke: ski mountain, hiking trails an energy plant.
#17 San Diego Freeway
#18 In case this hasn’t been posted here, here’s highway 401 AKA North America’s busiest highway at its widest point (18 lanes) just outside of Toronto, Ontario
#19 Intersection in Zagreb, Croatia
#20 The Tijuana International Airport in Mexico has a terminal in the US which is connected to the main building through a bridge over the border.
#21 Barcalona, Spain
#22 Sart Canal Bridge, Belgium
#23 A1 Highway Ecoduct, The Veluwe, Netherlands
#24 Someone else posted an animal crossing in Canada, so here’s one in Bydgoszcz, Poland
#25 Hainan, a tropical island in China
#26 Veluwemeer Aqueduct, The Netherlands
#27 Royal Gorge Bridge – Fremont County, Colorado
#28 Elevated metro line integrated into park it passes over in Kolkata, India
#29 The Beipanjiang Bridge, spanning the Nizhu River in China at a height of 565 metres
#30 Ethiopia’s GERD (Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam) is now 100% completed. It will be inaugurated on Sept. 9th
