35 masterpieces of infrastructure, the beauty of which everyone will appreciate

There are many talented architects and engineers in different parts of the world who have implemented more than one ingenious solution that combines practicality with aesthetics. And looking at such masterpieces, you realize that they easily pull on a separate art form.

Below, see a selection of the best photos from the InfrastructurePorn subreddit, which consists of more than 225 thousand participants. The group is dedicated to the beauty of road interchanges, bridges and any other infrastructure objects. There is really something to see here.

Ecoduc (bridge for animals to cross the highway) over the A1 Highway, Veluwe, the Netherlands

Veluvemer Aqueduct, Netherlands

Archipelago infrastructure in Norway

Skytrain Airport Inside Jewel Changi, Singapore

A cell tower disguised as a cactus

In the city of Holland (Michigan, USA), the roadway and sidewalks in the center have a heating system that can melt 2.5 cm of snow in an hour. Plastic pipelines are laid under the road surface, through which warm water circulates

Sarthe Canal Bridge, Belgium

Eco-roads, railways, highways, roads, pedestrian paths. Breda, the Netherlands

Shalu Landscape Trail, Taichung, Taiwan

Viaduct de Millau-France

View of the 30-kilometer Hautribdijk dam in the Netherlands

Roundabout at the bottom of the ocean, Faroe Islands. A system of underwater tunnels connects the two islands

Brutalist style apartments in Camden, London

The village in Denmark

Delta (Delta Works), the Netherlands. The largest storm barrier in the world. It is considered one of the seven wonders of the modern world

Northern Lights from the top of the Makino Bridge

Electric trestle (suspended railway), Wuppertal, Germany

Storseysundet Bridge in Norway

Railway bridge on the background of Dudhsagar Waterfall (Sea of Milk), Goa, India

Metro station in Saint Petersburg

The intersection of three metro lines at the Place de L'opera in Paris

Transport interchange near Tokyo

Design engineers demonstrate the cantilever structures of the Forth Bridge in Scotland, 1887.

Cykelslangen (Bicycle snake), Copenhagen, Denmark

Another scale of infrastructure: salmon ladders in Sweden

Botanical Garden at Atocha Train Station, Madrid

Gordon Dam in Tasmania, Australia

Ring and bicycle bridge in the Netherlands

Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol

Pont de Normandy, France. Cable-stayed road bridge, one of the longest suspension bridges in the world

Beipanjiang Bridge crossing the Niju River in China at an altitude of 565 meters

Georgia has updated the bus fleet, adding electric buses to it

Bhumibol Bridge, Bangkok, Thailand

Solar power plants in the United States

The inertia damper of the Taipei 101 skyscraper. This is a device built into the structure of a building and designed to reduce the amplitude of its mechanical vibrations (protection in case of earthquakes)