Beware!
Powerful and so expressive..

It was awe inspiring.

Yes, all those staid verticals destroyed by the giant snake's arc. A morality play (which is why no one's watching, because morality is so last millennium).

Wow, John, what a frightening thought/reality, but so beautifully expressed. I'll steal that phrasing, if I may. (Sorry to hijack your thread, Steve.)

I hadn’t seen the arc and the verticals, but I see them now.
I have no idea why Sheffield is having this sudden growth spurt. New tower blocks ( beautiful glass, some of them) are Springing up all around. Where is the money flowing in from? Will it bring any work to a depressed economy? We’re all puzzled. The city will look like your Toronto by this time next year.

Thanks, John. Feel free to steal the phrasing. I hadn't planned to make a book out of it or anything like that.

It's a great picture, made even better by the pedestrians walking past. I would surmise they've passed many times and become inured to the ongoing, seemingly relentless demolition of their city. It's now just "Meh, another one bites the dust." As Judite says, powerful and expressive.

This shows how a still picture can give a skewed impression. Around me many had stopped to watch. Many took photographs. Even the workmen had stopped to look. The digger was giving an extraordinary performance: tearing at the structures with its jaws and smashing walls sideways with its head. I’m a keen observer of demolitions, but have never seen anything like this. The group passing in this photo were atypical.

Street photography is a non-random sample (or a non-probability sample, as we used to say in my old line of work). Typicality cannot be estimated from a non-random sample. And if the distribution is skewed it's sometimes difficult to define the typical. Once again statistics proves that photographs are mysteries

My Toronto died several years ago, Steve. I pray Sheffield won't become like the Toronto of today.