Conference Time
I’m heading out shortly to the annual APTI conference, this year in Providence, Rhode Island: As always, I expect to
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.
Taller Than Usual
The east side of Madison Avenue, between 58th and 59th Streets: The building that has been removed was a mid-rise
Unretouched
I make no promises about what the digital camera, or the conversion of the photos form HEIC to JPG, or
It Looked Familiar: Municipal
Captain America goes to a meeting with a politician: The west facade of the Municipal Building at 1 Centre Street:
At Least Dead Load
Another of Ellen’s pictures, this time from an abandoned fort: This fort upstate was built starting in 1842 and designed
Another Buried Lede
From Lewis Hine in 1931, “Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & Daily News in middle foreground”: Chrysler is
No Math
It’s always nice when you can see a project from the train: We’ve worked on a lot of mid-to-late-1800s churches
General Trends
From the Wurts Brothers in 1931, “General View – Manhattan – Aerial view – 42nd Street – Fifth Avenue –
Temporary
Depending on the extent and nature of facade work, sometimes it’s better done from swing-stages and sometimes it’s better done
Truth In Advertising
There’s something to be said for a business name that is catchy, clever, and completely accurate.
Suburbia
I found myself in Westchester County, north of the city a few months ago. Smile for the camera, Bambi:
Surprise!
I was far uptown and took a picture of a ghost cornice on an extant building: That’s a facade with
The Early Stages
From Lewis Hine, “Plumbing up a column” at the Empire State Building: First, as with nearly all of Hine’s photos,
A Little Late In The Year
But there are still flowers in the Park Avenue medians.
Rat Rock
Two people, within two weeks of each other, independently asked me about a giant piece of schist — also known
Framing Out The Unmissable
From the Wurts Brothers, in 1947, “General View – Manhattan – Grand Army Plaza”. The photo shows exactly what the
More Or Less an Incompatibility: Joists and Plumbing
A while back I started ran a series of blog posts on inherent incompatibilities in building design that we all
Fun With Photography
Thanks to the use of my phone’s panorama setting, north is on the left side of this photo and south
Jump Scare
I don’t think I’ve shared this site-visit photo before…if I have, hopefully I’m at least making a different joke now
Not Quite A Tunnel
Walking underground from the Madison Avenue entrance to the subway complex next to Grand Central Terminal east to the 4/5