Little By Little
As I was passing by, a photo of 10, 12, and 14 East 44th Street, three 25-foot wide buildings in
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.
Two Paths
This is a picture from that same church I was showing last week, but the topic really isn’t about the
Peeled Back
From ten years ago, a random construction site I passed while walking through Newark: If you know how skeleton-frame buildings
It Looked Familiar: Duh
Villains strategize in The Mystery Men in a not-very-mysterious hideout: I suspect the background is real, but unless I stumble
Barely Related
The last of these church pictures… The damaged state of the plaster ceiling, combined with Ellen’s vantage point on scaffold
Things Change
(Note that “Things Change” is my most common title for a post: this is the fifth time I’ve used it,
The Personal Touch
One of the weirder parts of trolling through collections of old photos of NYC is finding a building that I’ve
Maybe, Maybe Not
Today’s tiny mystery: what is up with that blob? It’s squeezed between two much larger buildings on East 58th Street
A Winner!
You’ve seen the photo below before (“Eat Your Heart Out, Piranesi“) but here’s some news: Ellen Key took it this
Insight On The Process
First, obviously, this xkcd comic is a joke. I’m not going to analyze the joke. But, like a lot of
Art Deco Against The Sky
No deep thoughts, just enjoying the view of 21 (left) and 20 West Street from Little West Street.
It Looked Familiar: The Zeitgeist
First up, a fictitious hospital in upstate New York from a graphic novel called Seance in the Asylum: It doesn’t
PP, P, F, FF
Some more pictures from that 1890s church, specifically looking at where the roof trusses bear on the masonry walls. First,
A Hung Hanger
As I mentioned yesterday, the roof of a church we’re working on, like a lot of churches, has scissors trusses
Layer Upon Layer
A look inside an 1890s church: Obviously, we’d be happier if the building were not so damaged, but the state
Heavy Heavy
The Brooklyn Warehouse and Storage Company, on Schermerhorn Street west of Flatbush and Third Avenues, was a massive building. “Fireproof
An Old New Idea
I’ve written a fair amount here about green roofs, in part because I think they’re a good idea and in
The Latest, Briefly
The USS North Dakota passes by the Brooklyn Bridge in 1913, presumably on the way to the Brooklyn Navy Yard:
It Looked Familiar: Establishing Shot
How do you let someone know you’re in New York? In Iron Man Noir, you have Tony Stark’s airship sail
Reuse Is Good Business
I’ve pounded the table on this topic before, but it’s always worth a repeat, particularly when there are new examples.