No Information Is Useless…
…until it is. From a recent site visit, a view of a piece of 1910s steel: The dark red is
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.
Equitable on Broad Street 9
After a digression to the interior last time – which will be revisited in a post or two as the
Probably A Typo
From Max Hubacher, April 9, 1949, “View from the Liberty Street-CNF ferry on lower Manhattan”: Had he turned a bit
Ad Hoc And Efficient
From a site visit to an old mansion upstate, a weird detail in the basement: It took a minute to
Her Choice Of Title, Not Mine
From Ellen, “stairway to heaven.” Note the church-tower wind bracing on the right and the nice detail of the treads
Equitable on Broad Street 8
This series of blog posts may end up taking longer than the actual construction of the Equitable building, but I
Lucy Moses Award: The Riverside Church
I said yesterday that we have a recent trend of small projects winning Lucy Moses awards. The second project that
Lucy Moses Award: 21 Stuyvesant Street
Continuing a trend of recent years, two small-scale projects we worked on won Lucy Moses awards this year. First, the
Equitable on Broad Street 7
In the last post, the frame of the Equitable building was making good progress in April of 1927. Here’s a
Progress and Preservation: Reuse for a Resilient City
In a week and a half, I will be a panelist at the event “Progress and Preservation: Reuse for a
Communications
I stand with Mr. Maverick:
It Looked Familiar: Monumental Deco
From a 30-year-old comic, Bruce Wayne attends a reception at an odd-looking hotel: Union Terminal in Cincinnati: Curiously, DC Comics
Good and Bad Art
A long time ago, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said of pornography that he couldn’t define it but “I
Equitable on Broad Street 6
In the last post, the Equitable building had finally made it out of the ground, with steel columns sticking up
Someone Else’s Manifesto
One of the odder effects of the internet is that it’s possible to become semi-obsessed with someone else’s obsessions. I’ve
Sawtooth
Looking east on 23rd Street from between Madison and Fifth Avenues: Note the street sign below the McDonald’s flag: Madison
Equitable on Broad Street 5
When I left off last week, with a photo from November 15, 1926, the caissons were in place, and the
An Idea To Steal
Who wouldn’t want their food served by weird contraptions and acrobatics? I may never get to the Lunch of Little
Variations On A Theme
A lamppost after a February snowstorm: Art in the office of Yellow House Architects: It’s the end of the week,
New and Less New
From January 11, 1952, Max Hubacher gives us “View of the tip of Manhattan from the new Brooklyn Heights Esplanade”: