More Pareidolia
As I was walking around, I got a good view of 30 Hudson Yards and its observation deck, The Edge:
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.
It Looked Familiar: I Walk By Every Week
Tony Stark conducts some business while walking: Street view of Broad Street, looking south from Wall Street: The New York
Theory Versus Practice, Garbage Edition
One of my favorite jokes: In theory there’s no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is. Recycling
Organized Chaos
I’ve written before about the caisson foundations at the Woolworth Building but here comes the New York Public Library with
As Good A Theory As Any
This post may not seem like it’s about the built environment, but it is. I’ll get there eventually, just with
Revisiting A Moment
More than five years ago, I wrote about the see-saw history of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge: built in 1939 with the
Just A Little Over The Top
During a rooftop site visit in midtown a couple of years ago, I turned around and there it was: the
Old Home Week
For various reasons, I went to two different elementary schools, even though we lived in the same apartment from when
Three Old Photos
In honor of the cold weather we’ve been having, some of it with clear blue skies and tonight with snow,
Proof!
I’ve more or less run out of Lewis Hine photos of the Empire State Building construction, so let’s head south
‘Tis But A Scratch
A beam – maybe steel, maybe wrought iron – in a sidewalk vault, photographed several years ago: Just to be
Trading One For Another
The attic of a very old house: Yes, that is a chimney on an angle. That’s a fairly common sight
This Was Not Normal
From the Wurts Brothers, “General View – Rivers – Hudson River – looking west from Whitehall Building”: Once again, that
A Curiosity
Some old houses in Chelsea, on Ninth Avenue between 21st and 22nd Streets: To quote from the designation report for
It Looked Familiar: Sort of
A newspaper headquarters in Gotham City: The Chrysler Building: Of all of the possible criticisms of the design of Chrysler,
A Portrait
I was on site with Ellie Phetteplace yesterday, and she took this picture of me. I like it so much,
Raking Light Is Your Friend
I’m returning to this topic – a tip on how to do field investigation of buildings – for the fourth
An Attack
I frankly enjoy a good savaging by a critic, whether I agree with it or not. There is something deeply
Caught In The Act
Lewis Hine titled this 1931 photo of the construction of the Empire State Building “Workers having lunch” and it’s hard
Sometimes It’s An Ugly Duck
It’s not easy to make a suspension bridge look clunky, but the Williamsburg Bridge somehow manages. Similarly, it’s not easy