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CONCRETE — The climbing wall that is planned for the back of the old silos that welcome visitors to the town of Concrete has had its first climbing holds installed.
CONCRETE — Visible from Highway 20, old concrete silos welcome visitors to Concrete and celebrate the industry that is part of the town’s history.
Town of Concrete's iconic silos could see new life. ... The two, along with fellow climber Rafael O'Connor, plan to turn the 100-foot-tall silos into a climbing wall with up to 17 different routes.
In a honeycombed, many-storied concrete vault that suggests an overly ambitious L.A. parking garage, 10,000 humans co-exist, unaware of how they got there, or what happened in the “before times.” ...
Some artists are paying their “respects” to the abandoned grain silos that, for decades, stood as icons of Midwest decay and ...
A Ready-Mix Concrete plant in the Midwestern United States has resolved material build-up issues in three storage silos where accumulation had slowed production and increased internal pressures ...
The most concrete measure is — more concrete. Silo walls have been made thicker and stronger. The Minuteman III missile carries a warhead of around 400 kilotons; ...
When the sun sets on Silo City, casting an Instagram-friendly glow over the mammoth concrete grain elevators that dot the complex, a towering new metal sculpture at the edge of the site comes ...
FORT DODGE, Iowa — There are big canvases to paint on, and then are BIG canvases. Artist Guido van Helten, of Brisbane, Australia, is working on the biggest one available in Fort Dodge — an 80 ...