construction scaffolding in 798

so i like building scenes...

and i like visual grids...

and i like the potential visual energy of impending disaster...

...so you know how when you are walking up broadway from union square up towards 23rd st.  there is a whole block of a new york standard--the union implemented scaffolding.  it's meant to protect the pedestrians passing underneath from being killed by any materials that might fall from the steel scaffolding above, which is being implemented in the surface renovation of some mid-range mid-town skyscraper.  it creates a sidewalk cocoon topped by corrugated steel and you feel relatively safe until you realize that the whole thing is being anchored by some plywood shims evening out the legs of the whole structure.  well in china, all the engineering is based on bamboo poles bound together by twine.  entire skyscrapers are built with a bamboo framework of scaffolding surrounding it from the sidewalk on up.  the chinese are either genius or they realize the exact social and economic cost of a workman in a country of 1.4 bill.