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Quad Cities I-74 Iowa Illinois Mississippi River Bridge Photography

Quad Cities I-74 Iowa Illinois Mississippi River Bridge

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Quad Cities I-74 Iowa Illinois Mississippi River bridge photography

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MILLER+MILLER Architectural Photography was commissioned by Miguel Rosales of Rosales + Partners for a photography architectural photo shoot of the new I-74 bridge in the Quad Cities. The new I-74 Mississippi River crossing bridge construction connects the Illinois and Iowa state’s roads and transportation infrastructure – both a functional bridge with its infrastructure design, yet constructed as beautifully aesthetic designed structural piece of art. The arching white bridges are visible from long range viewpoints miles away from the Illinois and Iowa Mississippi shorelines during the day and when illuminated at night.

The new $1.2-billion bridge fully opened to road traffic on Dec. 2, 2021. The walkable, running, and bike friendly pedestrian portion of the bridge opened for use in April 2022 with the City of Bettendorf IA and Moline IL hosting a bike and pedestrian path dedication on May 18, 2022. Waiting for optimum weather and the exterior landscape with trees in the area to be full of green leaves, our photo shoot proceeded in early June. The I-74 bridge project is part of a regional strategy for improving access across the Mississippi. For updates on the I-74 River Bridge project, visit the bridge construction project website at I74RiverBridge.com.

MILLER+MILLER is a commercial architectural photography company who produces marketing images for architects, contractors, engineers, artists, mechanical, civic, government, and more professional companies. M+M spent the day completing photography of the Mississippi Bridge in Moline Illinois and Bettendorf Iowa capturing variety of vantage points from both the ground level and bird’s eye height in the sky with our drone from sunrise to sunset.

A photography goal was to illustrate not only the final completed structure of the bridge, but also the beautiful landscape surrounding the twin arching bridges. Producing aerial, day, sunset, and night photographs to showcase the bridge’s Summer time season, Midwest landscape, bridge uplighting illumination at night, and architecture structural design. A goal of photographing images for the Quad Cities new landmark twin bridges which artistically capture architectural photos the suspension bridge and twin steel arches bridge structure. The Quad Cities I-74 Iowa Illinois Mississippi River bridge design is a visually memorable and artistic connection for traffic driving over the Mississippi River and between the states of Iowa and Illinois.

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The Interstate 74 (I-74) transportation road bridge reconstruction serves as the primary crossing of the Mississippi River in the Quad Cities of Davenport, Rock Island, Bettendorf, & Moline in Illinois and Iowa. The bridge construction project totaled seven miles of interstate expansion. Design and transportation functionality of the I-74 bridge provides access for the important east-west interstate link in the nation’s Midwest segment of the transportation network with its west end at the I-80 interchange in Davenport Iowa and east terminus at I-75 in Cincinnati.

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Pedestrians and visitors to the bridge river crossing site are able to use the bike and pedestrian path which features on top a scenic overlook with a glass oculus floor. The oculus view point provides the public with a unique view through the glass of the Mississippi River flowing below as well as a viewing platform to view the west setting sunsets over the Mississippi river valley. The 10-foot diameter glass oculus is made of thick, safe to stand on with the tempered glass with a textured surface to provide traction. In the evening, the bridge glows with up lighting, and the entire path is lit at night to include the pedestrian bridge’s summit scenic water overlook. The fully separated pedestrian bridge is ADA accessible. The path connects to existing trails on both sides of the Mississippi River waterway between Davenport, Rock Island, Bettendorf, and Moline. The old I-74 bridge is planned for demolition.

On December 1, 2021, thousands of residents and visitors participated in a celebration walk over the new I-74 River Bridge and celebrated the future of the Quad Cities together. Watch the December recap celebratory walk video on the I-74 River Bridge Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b9p-nDvkyQ

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Congress passed the Whitehouse’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law which will rebuild America’s roads, bridges and rails https://www.whitehouse.gov/bipartisan-infrastructure-law/ (in addition to expand access to clean drinking water, ensure every American has access to high-speed internet, tackle the climate crisis, advance environmental justice, invest in communities.) Government improvements are for the United States ports, airports, rail, and roads reconstructing our nation’s bridges, and construction of interstate highway traffic and transportation systems. MILLER+MILLER Architectural Photography is experience in photographing all types of infrastructure, view additional posts featuring Bridges Transportation Road Highway Marine Airports Utilities Photographer image examples.

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MILLER+MILLER is a husband & wife, Nationwide traveling commercial architectural photography company. Our photographs of the new Quad Cities I-74 Iowa Illinois bridge replacement crossing over the Mississippi River, connecting Iowa to Illinois, features nearly two decades of work from a number of contributors for the bridge development project. From design, to planning, to construction, the build was a collaboration of the project leads listed below, along with all their sub-contracting partners, and countless other entities, businesses, and community members. ( Sources www.constructionequipmentguide.com/crews-place-keystone-on-iowa-illinois-bridge/49218, and the links below).

BRIDGE PROJECT COLLABORATORS & CONTRIBUTORS:
IOWA DOT District 6 Cedar Rapids
Illinois DOT District 2

Awards
American Institute of Steel Construction and the National Steel Bridge Alliance — National Award in the Major Span category of the 2022 Prize Bridge Awards

Design
Rosales + Partners — Architect, conceptual engineering and design of bridges, and type study selection, architectural visualizations and physical models
Modjeski and Masters (M&M), as part of the Alfred Benesch Design Team

Construction Management/General Engineering Consultants
Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions, Inc.
HR Green
Hutchison Engineering Inc.
Knight E/A, Inc
R.M. Chin & Associates, Inc.
Images, Inc. — Public Involvement Strategic Communications Planning

Construction Engineering and Inspection Consultants
R.J. Watson, Inc.
Tenca Steel Detailing, Inc.
Bruner, Cooper & Zuck, Inc.
HNTB
McClure Engineering Associates, Inc

Contractors
Helm Group/Civil Constructors Inc. — Iowa viaduct
Kraemer North America — Illinois viaduct and ramps
K&W Electric — Roadway lighting
Lunda Construction Co. — Main bridge
Minturn — Aesthetic lighting
McCarthy Improvement — Iowa mainline and ramps
Valley Construction — Iowa ramp and mainline storm sewer
Walsh Group — Illinois I-74 mainline and ramps

MILLER+MILLER Architectural Photography — Chicago and Nationwide Traveling Photographer of the I-74 Quad Cities IA/IL Bridge Mississippi River Crossing

Contact photographers MILLER+MILLER Architectural Photography to photograph your finished architecture, structure, transportation, infrastructure, or construction project. Providing aerial drone photography, video, and exterior night photography services, we look forward to learning about your unique project and your photography image needs. Our husband and wife photography company with 10+ years of working as a commercial photographer provide an experienced ability to capture a variety of exterior angles, elevations, and artistically framed shots of structures, architecture, infrastructure and more through photography and architectural video services.

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Photographers Miller + Miller Architectural Photography are Nationwide award-winning producers of high-rise skyscraper building photography. Our photography company has the capacity and experience to photograph any building project large or small. Photographing high-rise architecture, tall condominiums, urban and suburban apartment towers, corporate offices, skyscrapers, from 10 to 40-stories or larger hotels, luxury, residential property, million square foot commercial properties, and large buildings in not only our home town of Chicago, also traveling to the City of Dallas, Houston, Austin, Las Vegas, St Louis, Detroit, New York, Miami, Seattle, Phoenix, Milwaukee, San Francisco and other major cities Nationwide since 2006.

Rest assured knowing that our architectural photography company has experience photographing all types of buildings from mid to high-rises, condominiums, extra-large warehouses, the tallest skyscrapers, or large buildings strategizing the property into the best light possible. Over the past ten years, we have been highly focused and in-tune to each of our client’s business development needs to create award-winning, high-caliber, and quality exterior building property photography and drone aerial photographs for all of your company’s photo marketing, magazine and publishing needs.

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Does your company build around the US? Travel is easy for our Illinois Chicago – Phoenix Arizona based photography company. We are a husband and wife architectural photographers with over a decade client photo projects with travel across the country. Photographing high-rise properties and developments in not only the Midwest and Southwest but Nationwide. For over a decade, clients in energy, infrastructure, corporate businesses, real estate, architect company, design-build, high-rise construction, large healthcare properties on a medical campus, education university college, high-rise rentals, leasing, skyscraper tower developers, urban property management and more Contact Us for residual large-scale photography shoot project success. Miller + Miller Architectural Photography are your established and creative marketing photographer specialists with accomplished abilities in photographing exterior photography and aerial drone photographs for today’s finest built skyscrapers, high-rise properties and large buildings in any geographic location – Nationally, Internationally, and Worldwide. We look forward to discussing your business and photo projects.

Read more about builders of high-rise projects around the US, Chicago’s 50 high-rises under construction in Chicago in 2018, and The Business Journals web site has weekly updates about design, architecture and news about Nationwide high-rise development activities evolving Nationwide. More skyscrapers were built in 2017 than any other year, in sixty nine cities around the World. China is the leader and takes the cake with the most high-rises last year. Intrigued by architecture like us? See the World’s tallest 100 buildings according to ctbuh.org the Council on Tall Buildings in Urban Habitat.

Scottsdale Developers Optima Kierland Development Photography

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Scottsdale developers Optima created Optima Kierland which provides multiple living options for residents in Arizona. The Optima Kierland development is a community that caters to desert dwellers who love modern living arrangements, an abundance of amenities, and appreciate the desert landscape & innovative location in which to live. This post features example photos from our exterior building photography project shoot taking place at the brand new Arizona development. A North Scottsdale Developers Optima & Optima Kierland Development photography shoot.

The Arizona desert landscape was looking beautiful and the Fall season was perfect fit our October building photography shoot in Scottsdale. For this project, our client contributed to the construction of the building’s structure, providing the metal and glass within the windows, walls, unit shades, balcony terraces, and doors enclosures for the stunning Optima Kierland community towers. The IAP Enclosure Systems company is a global, custom glass designer, with fabrication manufacturing, and installation glass and metal enclosure services. The photography shoot’s focus was on exterior elevation building photos (no interior shots) of the recently completed construction of the building. We photographed architectural building photos of the finished 7160 Optima Kierland building tower plus a few shots of 7120 East Optima tower, the community’s 2nd building under-construction. Although this shoot focused on exterior construction building photography of the development only… keep in mind, our architectural photography company also photographs residential interiors and interior photography of condos, apartments, homes, luxury residences, and more. Browse through our blog and visit our Portfolio section for interior photo examples.

Our architectural photography company has locations in Chicago & Phoenix and the ability to travel Nationwide allowing us to cater specifically to each photography client, to often supply images for a company’s entire portfolio. We believe in the marketing power of strong images for an entire portfolio and photographing a series of projects and buildings locally to traveling nationwide for a multi-state shoot. One of our niche architectural photography services is exterior building photography for new developments, architects, developer, new construction photos of buildings, and design build construction company’s finished projects for a business’s marketing portfolio.

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The Scottsdale architect’s award-winning design, by developers Optima, Inc., designed the Optima Kierland Development in North Scottsdale into a distinctive community composed of four towers and 4 phases of construction. Each glass tower has its own unique address and amenities. Optima Kierland is located on 9.5 acres at the desirable intersection of Scottsdale Road and Kierland Boulevard. 7140, 7180, 7120 and 7160 East Kierland Blvd in Scottsdale Arizona. Optima is the Community Designer, Developer and General Contractor, with properties in Arizona and Illinois.

The Optima Kierland community floats over an exquisite desert landscape & park-like landscaping setting. The garden community towers span 12 stories. Lower levels residences offer a sense of quiet closeness to nature with intimate views of the lush sculpture gardens and sparkling fountains. Higher-level residences’s glass windows and terraces offer unforgettable vistas with the rugged Arizona desert mountains surrounding. The building’s vertical landscaping integrates the tower with the natural beauty of the environment, from the ground all the way to the rooftop Sky Deck. The Optima Kierland community sets a new standard for luxury and has a building design incorporating the City of Phoenix’s newly adopted International Green Construction Code. The premier green construction building development’s next-gen design and sustainable elements incorporates advanced building materials to maximize longevity, unique garden landscaping, and an efficient shading system to keep homes cool and increase privacy according to the Urban Land Institute of Arizona.

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The buildings all share the architectural aesthetic design and beauty. The towers incorporate a theme in the signature style designed by Optima. The buildings incorporate vertical landscaping with greenery hanging from each floor’s balcony terraces paired with an innovative glass modern building architectural design style. The 12-story modern building incorporates strong geometric shapes, open flexible floor plans, concierge, rooftop gardens, vertical landscaping, and floor to ceiling glass construction for breathtaking mountain views proving for a perfect harmony and luxury living in Scottsdale. Lush, vertical landscaping is strategically integrated within the tower elevations. With the natural beauty of the environment, and the communities integrated lush landscaped park-like setting, sculpture gardens and fountains, the esthetic is unique with so much greenery and landscaping climbing the façade of the glass building for Arizona development. Plants and landscaping was a focus during the development planning. We photographed the buildings & landscaping from each angle and from the ground all the way to the rooftop Sky Deck and aerial photography.

Unparalleled, luxury urban living in the middle of the Sonoran Desert. 7120 East Kierland is North Scottsdale’s luxury high-rise condominium tower with luxurious condo homes for sale priced from the low $300,000-$3.1M+ penthouses. The 7160 Optima Kierland tower offers 1 and 2-bedroom luxury apartment homes with leasing rates starting from about $2K – $3,500 + a month.

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North Scottsdale luxury living is found at Optima Kierland providing the best of luxury on-site amenities in the Arizona desert. Real Estate Daily news feature describes the development and its exclusive indoor and outdoor amenities that truly set Optima Kierland apart, room lush gardens and water features on the lower levels to stunning mountain and cityscape views from the rooftop sky deck. Vertical landscaping and private outdoor rooms in each home integrate the condominium tower with the natural beauty of the desert environment. Sports and exercise enthusiastic residents enjoy the exercise facilities include a fully equipped approximately 16,000 square foot indoor/outdoor fitness center, indoor basketball and golf simulator. Optima Kierland’s exclusive Sky Deck, with its 360-degree rooftop view, has a heated lap pool, steam and sauna rooms along with spacious common areas and the chance for relaxed social gatherings around sundecks, barbecues, fire pits and a covered outdoor bar. Residents can enjoy a wide variety of entertainment and dining options within convenient, walking distance to Kierland Commons and Scottsdale Quarter, along with a wide range of outdoor recreation to suit diverse lifestyles.

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The award-winning Optima, Inc. company is lead by architects David C. Hovey and David Hovey Jr. who are developers with an architect’s vision. Optima have built in Arizona Scottsdale’s Optima Sonoran Village, Optima Kierland, 7160 Optima Kierland, 7120 East Optima, and Optima Camel View Village. The developers Optima, Inc. are additionally building luxurious residences in Illinois with luxury modern apartment developments in downtown Chicago’s Streeterville. Optima Chicago Center is a 42-story, high-rise in 200 East Illinois St, Chicago, IL 60611. And Optima Signature is a 57-story skyscraper located at 220 East Illinois Street in Chicago.

Miller + Miller Architectural Photography is Chicago Phoenix Scottsdale photography company traveling nationwide photographing buildings, hotels, interiors, exteriors, luxury, multi-family, condominiums & apartments, residential, mansions & private estates, hospitality, hotels & resorts, commercial, architecture, skyscrapers, industrial, new construction, custom design build, aerial, drone, and more.

With family residing in the Phoenix, Scottsdale area for the past twenty years, our photography company has traveled between two office locations in Chicago and Phoenix. With our working locations in both Illinois and Arizona, we cater to a variety of clients traveling between Chicago & Phoenix a couple of times a year. We are also able to travel Internationally and around the Nation. Since the start of our company in 2006, our architectural photography company has commissioned photography jobs Nationwide in numerous major cities around the US to include photo shoots in Scottsdale, Phoenix, Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, San Francisco Bay area, LA Metro area of Los Angeles, Southern California, Reno, Las Vegas, Houston, Dallas, Denver, Miami, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Nashville, and more.

Our husband-wife photographer team of Ryan and Sarah Miller have no limits with our list of services to quote endless… aerial drone photos and video, skyscraper architectural photos, day or stunning evening night building photography, luxury high-rise condominium photography, 5-star hotel interior photography, boutique hotel, resorts, business plazas, retail, restaurants, lavish desert estates, ranches, homes and mansions, spas & resorts, commercial properties, industrial, or residential high-rise properties, and more. Contact us to discuss your business, marketing, and photography project.