Portrait Of The Engineer…
…as a hot, sweaty mess, up on a roof.
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.
Seeing The Stages
To begin, a warning: I am not an expert in fire engineering. I have inspected a fair number of buildings
A Good Imitation
From a recent stroll down Fulton Street in Brooklyn, an odd survivor: My first thought was that it was a
Crowded
Back to the Empire State Building construction photos, with two from Lewis Hine, using his labels: Putting aside Hine’s ability
Organization Help
Not “organizational help” as that’s a different topic entirely… As people running a small business, we at OSE appreciate when
How Do You Measure Health?
There are a lot of ways you can look at a city, and the bigger it is, the more there
Important To Someone
From an old warehouse building that no one thought about much until the neighborhood around it turned from the industrial
Symbolic of Something Or Other
From a rooftop in the east Bronx: In the distance, the towers of midtown (on the right) some 14 miles
A Multifaceted Symbol
While looking for something else in my old photos, I found this one from 2017: the Fire Department of New
After And Before
I showed this Wurts Brothers picture before, a nice portrait of the Williamsburgh Bank Tower shortly after its 1929 completion:
95 Years Or So
The Wurts Brother took a photo of the Kings County Savings Bank at the corner of Nostrand Avenue and Eastern
All Sorts Of New Technology
Part of the facade of 226 West Broadway, in Tribeca: Glazed terra cotta was not new in 1912, when the
Famous And Not
The New York Public Library has an online collection titled “Photographs of the Empire State Building under construction.” I expect
It’s A Possibility
A photo of street art from years ago: Who am I to disagree with an argument that persuasive?
It Looked Familiar: A Lot Of Facade Repair
In Fantastic Four: First Steps, Galactus comes to New York by splashing down in the harbor and climbing up onto
Three, Probably Four Colors
A much-repaired wall in a New Law Tenement: The brick between the two windows appears to be more or less
Unhidden Flaws
A wall in the Bronx, seen from the same building’s roof, looking across a courtyard: Putting aside the truly horrendous
Elevated, At Grade, In a Cut
There’s not a great deal of new information in “Take a Ride on New York City’s Future Train Line” in
Little By Little
As I was passing by, a photo of 10, 12, and 14 East 44th Street, three 25-foot wide buildings in
Two Paths
This is a picture from that same church I was showing last week, but the topic really isn’t about the