It Looked Familiar: Demonic
From an indie comic called The Damned, in which actual demons are part of organized crime, the apartment house that
More Evocative Than A Pastry
While looking through some old photos, I found the underside of the main entrance to an old Hudson Valley estate
If It’s Worth Doing…
…it’s worth doing right. Working with old buildings all the time means often working in occupied buildings, sometimes immediately adjacent
Lost To Antiquity, Recently
From the Wurts Brothers, circa 1930, 63 Wall Street: The vast majority of the Wurts’ photos of buildings show all
Endurance Or Lack Thereof
A fascinating discussion of what is, effectively, a structural failure: Here’s the real reason Endurance sank. Polar exploration in the nineteenth century
Two Things It’s Not
Last Wednesday, a high-rise apartment house at 205 Alexander Avenue in the Bronx, part of the New York City Housing
Taking Credit
Two more photos from last month’s trip to Lausanne. First, architects signing their work: There are a fair number of
So Close
An A train platform in the Rockaways: Hey, what’s that off in the middle distance? That’s the Atlantic Ocean. Not
Enough’s Enough
Indoor plumbing is one of the great advances of modern civilization, which people think of as a convenience but has
Surprise!
At a beach house on the south shore of Long Island… Pretty normal asphalt shingles, in a photo taken from
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