It Looked Familiar: Rude
Bruce Wayne drives a sports car… …apparently down the middle of the pedestrian-only Channel Garden at Rockefeller Center:
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 Literary and Architectural Note
Walking down the street in Brooklyn and, wow: I’m not particularly a Tolkien fan, but it’s hard not to make
Another Minor Mystery
While walking down the street in downtown Brooklyn: A close-up: The green construction fence is at the corner of Smith
A Wedding Cake
The Wurts Brothers show off 120 Wall Street in the early 1930s: We’re looking north up South Street, with the
Logistics
Lewis Hine in 1931: “Unloading steel from a truck”: It’s not clear how high the frame of the Empire State
Insidious
Some rotted wood in a little log cabin: You can see that the end of the eave log is ragged
It Looked Familiar: Maybe A Project
Yelena Belova – the White Widow – looks at a building she’s about to break into: The east facade of
It Looked Familiar: A Project
One of Batman’s enemies – Roman Sionis AKA Black Mask – plots in his creepy-building hideout: One of the more-than-twice-life-size
400, 200, 100
Some musing about age… New York’s roots go back 402 years, to the first Dutch settlement. (The official town of
Tempus Fugit Plus Snow
From the Wurts Brothers: Wall Street, looking west from a bit east of William Street, in 1887. Only three buildings
Low-Rise
From the Wurts Brothers, probably in the 1930s, a two-story building that was at that time either a warehouse or
Stripey
A photo from the other day. looking at the north face of 61 Broadway over the roofs of 65 and
The Cutest Little Hammer
From a 1970s apartment house, the emergency boiler shut-down switch: Break the plastic cover and you’re done. You don’t have
Good Advice
Badly-encased conduit within a concrete slab, exposed by removal of the topping. I guess if you can’t immediately fix the
In The Distance
Midtown as seen looking past the Central Park reservior:
The Ordinary
From Lewis Hine in 1931, “Two workers riveting a corner beam” at the Empire State Building: The small size of
The Untouchables
Some years ago, I ran a series of posts about incompatibility. What they pretty much all had in common is
This Feels Like Cheating
From the Wurts Brothers, a photo titled “Brooklyn – 100 Henry Street – Clark Street” that is pretty clearly a
Dream And Reality
Daniel Badger ran one of the more successful iron foundries in New York in the mid-1800s, the Architectural Iron Works.
Nothing Is Untouchable
The meanings of words change, drift, slip. After the Great Fire of 1835 it turned out that buildings had been