A Family Portrait
The reddish-brown building in the center is the 1898 Williams Building at the corner of Monroe and Wells Streets in
A Tragedy Long Ago And Remembered
One of the outgrowths of spending so much time studying the history of building technology is that I’ve spent a
Weirdly Terrible Art
From 1914 or so, a postcard of “Bird’s eye view of lower New York” I’m going to sound like a
All In The Angle
The RCA Building, AKA the GE Building, AKA 30 Rockefeller Plaza, as seen by the Wurts Brothers between 1933 and
Irrefutable
A view of the steel on the Monroe Street bridge over the Chicago River: It’s a bascule bridge, where the
Worthy Of Note
A beautiful piece of small-scale design: That’s a corner masonry pier encasing a steel column. The light-blue things at the
Seemingly Out Of Context
Given the vast numbers of commuters that the Long Island Railroad carries, It’s easy to forget that it also carries
It Looked Familiar: High End
From a Batman comic, a description of a nice place to live: The top of the Pierre Hotel, where the
Walking
About 20 years ago, some construction-fence art went up on a large site at Park Place and Church Street, for
Forever
I have a mixed review of “NYC’s bridges can last ‘forever,’ if we take care of them” by Clayton Guse
You must be logged in to post a comment.