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
Half Of The Operation
From Lewis Hine’s “Photographs of the Empire State Building under construction” collection, “Three workers securing a rivet”: Actually, it’s two
One Photo, Many Words
From the New York Public Library collection of Wurts Brothers photos, October 3, 1924, ” 140 West 137th Street (7th
High Tech Or Low
The article “BIM-Driven Layout Robot Saves Time, Money” caught my eye. It describes a cute little robot that, given a
So Much Stuff
I don’t have much to add to this article on the open-to-visitors storehouse of the Victoria & Albert Museum: The
The Forest
From a rooftop in Brooklyn Heights, Midtown as seen past the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge:
Deep Thinking
A flash of inspiration struck at SAHC while I was listening to one of the keynote lecturers, leading to me
Practicality and Decoration
From Lausanne, two slightly different takes on the intersection of physical use and ornament. (For people with very long memories,
A Gem
While walking around Lausanne, I found this: That’s a low retaining wall and parapet, separating a small plaza on the
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