We’re Hiring
Old Structures is hiring. We are looking for an engineer to join our team and work on building alteration, renovation,
Book Review: The High Girders
There’s a kind of book I think of as “novelists’ history.” Accurate about facts as far as the sources allow,
What The What?
Someone thought this was a good design for the title page of what is actually a quite boring catalog from
It Looked Familiar: Nice Name
Gwen Stacy – AKA Spider-Gwen, AKA The Ghost Spider – sits on a building sign: The top of the Hotel
Not Always Downscale
A random find at the NYPL, the cast-iron facade of the Ridley Building, by the Jackson Iron Works: I love
Problem Geometry
How, exactly, do you connect the top of a wood-framed spire? There are eight diagonal timbers – defining the corners
Little And Big, Blurred
From the New York Public Library album of photos of the IRT subway construction, a 1901 photo unhelpfully titled “New
Boot Scrapers, Part 2: Preventing Ad Hoc
In Chelsea, some fancy cast iron: How do you get the mud, and probably horse manure, off the soles of
The Less Things Change…
From Max Hubacher, May 19, 1961, “Pennsylvania Station, New York”: Obviously Hubacher was more interested in people than in architecture,
Where It Comes From
I’ve written about the Whitehall Building and its extension enough that there’s not much to say about it for this
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