Logistics
From the NYPL’s “Album of photographs depicting the construction of the Broadway line, New York City Subway” we have, from
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.
Tedious and Confusing
From the NYPL, a photo by Max Hubacher from April 9, 1949, titled “Photo made…from the railroad bridge connecting Staten
Reuse Recycle Reduce
Ellen went to the Essex Market and found as good an example of ad hoc (or is it vernacular?) repurposing
It’s a Mystery
I don’t know why people think New York’s built environment is visually chaotic.
Ice On The Water…
…still more ice in the sky. Looking out the window on two weeks ago, during a slight thaw between two
Worse Than Usual, Without Failure
From an old apartment house, another one of the precursor takes on the concrete waffle slabs. The last one I
The Simple Things
A view of some wood rafters held up by a header: Each rafter has its own bridle iron as an
A Feedback Loop
From the NYPL’s “Album of photographs depicting the construction of the Broadway line, New York City Subway”, i.e., the original
Twenty Years On
Unsurprisingly this photo by Max Hubacher is titled “View from the Manhattan Bridge towards lower Manhattan”: It’s a reasonably straightforward
An Interesting Design, But
Via Core77, a review of the Hart Island Tumulus: here. Hart Island, just east of where the East River turns
Changing Perception
When APT was in Providence last fall for the annual meeting, I took pictures of a building: In my research
A Hard Edge
I forget if hard edges – where a cityscape abruptly changes from one thing to another – are supposed to
Star-like
From a Brooklyn subway station constructed by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, before it was renamed Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, a small
Buried
When I was new in this business, I asked a question about street utilities and first heard the name “Empire
Layers and Layers
From the NYPL photo album of the construction of the original IRT subway, “33rd Street & 4th Avenue” from January
So Very Close
The renovation of a 1910s apartment house (technically a New Law tenement, but somewhat nicer than the image that phrase
Spectacle
From September 1, 1954, Max Hubacher gives us “The Queen Elizabeth leaving New York”: It’s hard to tell where along
It Looked Familiar: Contrast
In Gotham, a cathedral surrounded by skyscrapers: In New York, a cathedral surrounded by skyscrapers, albeit without a crossing tower:
Last Weekend
A picture of white-out in Manhattan. Note that the sidewalk on the right, behind the bollards, is almost clear of
Demonstrated
A photo from San Francisco, some time in late April 1906: In the foreground, the ruins of an eight-story bearing-wall