Building Sights. A Journey through contemporary infrastructure

Building Sights: A photographic journey through the images of the infrastructures built by the Webuild Group in over 115 years of history

A leap from the skyscrapers of Panama City, to the deserts of the Middle East, from the extreme geometries of Copenhagen, to the folds in the workers' faces on our Italian construction sites. This is the journey of “Building Sights. A Journey through contemporary infrastructure”, the book published by the Webuild Group and edited by Rizzoli, which collects the shots of photographer Edoardo Montaina.

"Infrastructure - explains Pietro Salini, Webuild CEO, in the introduction of the book entitled "Frontiere" (Frontiers) - is essential for socio-economic development. The very etymology of this word immediately makes us think of our common life, of the great works that allow people to change their lives, which change the destiny of entire communities, providing them with a tool to go beyond their borders".

In Edoardo Montaina's photographic book, the shots tell of the frontier in construction sites, the place where a great work is born, and where Man meets nature. Faces, geometries, cities, nature, visions, time, work, are moments and places that come to life in the photos of the author, who began his career in 1985, and has held various exhibitions around the world over the years. The book tells of the large global construction sites of the Webuild Group.

It is a tool that narrates a story of how the Group has evolved, through an experience made up of over 80,000 km of roads, almost 14,000 km of railways and metros, 2,300 km of tunnels, almost 1,000 km of bridges, and 313 dams and electrical systems. From pyramids to fortresses, from cathedrals to cities, the art of building and telling the life of 70,000 people has always been one of Mankind’s most complete expressions.