Author Don Friedman Published on: February 16, 2026 Tags Blog Reuse Recycle Reduce Ellen went to the Essex Market and found as good an example of ad hoc (or is it vernacular?) repurposing
Author Don Friedman Published on: February 15, 2026 Tags Blog It’s a Mystery I don’t know why people think New York’s built environment is visually chaotic.
Author Don Friedman Published on: February 14, 2026 Tags Blog Ice On The Water… …still more ice in the sky. Looking out the window on two weeks ago, during a slight thaw between two
Author Don Friedman Published on: February 13, 2026 Tags Blog 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
Author Don Friedman Published on: February 12, 2026 Tags Blog The Simple Things A view of some wood rafters held up by a header: Each rafter has its own bridle iron as an
Author Don Friedman Published on: February 11, 2026 Tags Blog 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
Author Don Friedman Published on: February 10, 2026 Tags Blog Twenty Years On Unsurprisingly this photo by Max Hubacher is titled “View from the Manhattan Bridge towards lower Manhattan”: It’s a reasonably straightforward
Author Don Friedman Published on: February 9, 2026 Tags Blog An Interesting Design, But Via Core77, a review of the Hart Island Tumulus: here. Hart Island, just east of where the East River turns
Author Don Friedman Published on: February 8, 2026 Tags Blog Changing Perception When APT was in Providence last fall for the annual meeting, I took pictures of a building: In my research
Author Don Friedman Published on: February 7, 2026 Tags Blog A Hard Edge I forget if hard edges – where a cityscape abruptly changes from one thing to another – are supposed to
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