Gantry Crane: Left on Its Tracks, Unmoved

A dockside gantry crane left in its original location. It is a steel gantry crane over twenty meters high, with four legs straddling its original tracks. The steel structure is an exposed truss, and the paint has faded to an uneven gray or rusty red; the boom maintains its original angle. It is no longer operational but has not been dismantled or moved elsewhere for display; the ground below it functions as a plaza and walkway as usual, with people walking between its legs. Avoid: repainting the crane in bright colors, moving it onto a pedestal for sculptural display, removing the tracks and leaving only the body, enclosing the area with railings to prevent people from approaching.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一台留在原地的碼頭起重機。它是一座高二十米以上的鋼構門式吊車,四支腳跨在原本的軌道上,鋼構是外露的桁架,漆已經褪成不均勻的灰或鏽紅;吊臂維持著原本的角度。它不再運作,但沒有被拆除也沒有被移到別處展示;下方的地面照常是廣場與步道,人從它的腿之間走過。避免:把起重機重新上漆成鮮豔顏色、移到基座上做成雕塑展示、拆除軌道只留機體、在周圍圍起護欄不讓人靠近。