This intriguing and elegant structure is clearly a masterpiece of pinpoint balancing – but it's not really scaffolding, is it?
Thanks to Joseph de Klerk for this image taken recently in Ghana of an “attempt” at scaffolding, as he describes it.
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Keep up to dateThis intriguing and elegant structure is clearly a masterpiece of pinpoint balancing – but it's not really scaffolding, is it?
Thanks to Joseph de Klerk for this image taken recently in Ghana of an “attempt” at scaffolding, as he describes it.
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