A Well-Built Mystery
From the NYPL collection of photos of the construction of the original IRT subway, ” Broadway & 62nd Street” from
Journal
Our work with old buildings has us studying a lot of different topics in addition to structural engineering – for example, architecture, history, and historic preservation – and we like sharing stories about what we’ve found.
A Snapshot In Time And Space
Max Hubacher, January 28, 1943, “The Long Island R.R. station in Brooklyn during a snow storm”: That’s the old Atlantic
More Contextual Analysis
Friend of the blog and friend of OSE Nancy Rankin sent this photo, taken out her office window: So we’re
Non-Negligible
Yesterday’s storm was far from the worst New York has ever seen, but it was a good reminder of how
A Threat Under Your Feet
Something I’ve mentioned in passing a few times, but have not discussed in any depth, is the prevalence of nineteenth-century
Passing By
We’re due for another big storm tonight and tomorrow, so let’s go with a photo of some blue sky from
It Looked Familiar: Bad Practice
From a 1940 Batman comic, Robin battles with gangsters on a construction site: Starting at the upper left panel and
It’s Catching
One of the ways in which wood damage can be different from damage to other materials is that the damage
A New Series, Scraped
This is the first of what I can guaranty will be an irregularly-published series on the bootscrapers of New York.
Logistics
From the NYPL’s “Album of photographs depicting the construction of the Broadway line, New York City Subway” we have, from
Tedious and Confusing
From the NYPL, a photo by Max Hubacher from April 9, 1949, titled “Photo made…from the railroad bridge connecting Staten
Reuse Recycle Reduce
Ellen went to the Essex Market and found as good an example of ad hoc (or is it vernacular?) repurposing
It’s a Mystery
I don’t know why people think New York’s built environment is visually chaotic.
Ice On The Water…
…still more ice in the sky. Looking out the window on two weeks ago, during a slight thaw between two
Worse Than Usual, Without Failure
From an old apartment house, another one of the precursor takes on the concrete waffle slabs. The last one I
The Simple Things
A view of some wood rafters held up by a header: Each rafter has its own bridle iron as an
A Feedback Loop
From the NYPL’s “Album of photographs depicting the construction of the Broadway line, New York City Subway”, i.e., the original
Twenty Years On
Unsurprisingly this photo by Max Hubacher is titled “View from the Manhattan Bridge towards lower Manhattan”: It’s a reasonably straightforward
An Interesting Design, But
Via Core77, a review of the Hart Island Tumulus: here. Hart Island, just east of where the East River turns
Changing Perception
When APT was in Providence last fall for the annual meeting, I took pictures of a building: In my research