Shape But Not Size
Looking at Billionaire’s Row from a rooftop two miles to the north: For clarity: A is 111 West 57th Street,
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: Splish Splash
From John Carpenter’s “Tales For A Halloween Night”: A nice day in the park, about to go very bad for
Image Integrity
Seeing as how the day after the US Thanksgiving holiday traditionally has the fewest readers of this blog, it’s time
A Thanksgiving Parade Of A Kind
New York has a slightly weird relationship with Thanksgiving. The current parade, long sponsored by the Macy’s store to mark
Cool But So Dangerous
From Lewis Hine’s series of photos of the Empire State Building in construction, “Connecting the beams” from 1931: As always
Hanging
The last of my “what is that” pictures from Providence is from inside City Hall: The building, completed in 1878,
Two Arches
First, from Providence, a stone arch holding up some of the front facade of a bearing-wall building: If you look
An Arms Race
The new subway turnstiles originally had just round bars. Then the curved fins were attached to make it more difficult
Blog Post Title
No, I didn’t forget to change the title. This is a blog post about blog post titles. On several occasions,
Design Decisions
The coffee shop across the street from the Rhode Island Convention Center, looking up: This is a modern one-story building,
Pretty Lights
From the Wurts Brothers, circa 1932, “General View – Manhattan – Aerial view – Night view from Empire State Building
What It’s Not
More walking around Providence during the APT conference: the Shepard Building: This is an old department store, greatly expanded around
The Doorway Of Mystery
A small piece of the beautiful and currently empty Journal Building in Providence: (Technically this post should be called “The
Still Serving As Intended And Not
I’m back from the APTI conference in Providence – as always, informative and fun – and I have two photos
Headier, Cloudier
Compared to some of my other pictrues of skyscrapers with their heads in the clouds, this view of the Whitehall
It Looked Familiar: Background
The set-up for a public ceremony to be attended by Captain America: Google street view from Sixth Avenue, looking east
Don’t Take This Advice
I normally save the ridiculous topics for the weekend but (a) it’s Friday, (b), I’m out of town, and (c)
Not Entirely A Joke
For years, I’ve been publishing individual panels of comic books with photographs of actual locations, partly to show how artists
Partly Luck
The Wurts Brothers, in 1951, showing “General View – Manhattan – Aerial view – West 34th Street- Seventh Avenue –
Conference Time
I’m heading out shortly to the annual APTI conference, this year in Providence, Rhode Island: As always, I expect to