se construire

Des merveilles de l'ingénierie se construisaient dans tous les coins.
Modern, striking engineering marvels were going up literally everywhere.
Dès 1870, les bananeraies se mirent à proliférer au fur et à mesure que les lignes de chemin de fer se construisaient à Limon, sur la côte de la mer des Caraïbes.
As early as the 1870s, banana plantations were springing up along newly built railway lines in Limon, on the country's Caribbean Sea coast.
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