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This is not my lunch’s view after I swallow:
It is, rather, a picture I took inside a steel tube post – an HSS section, to be pedantic – used as part of some newish dunnage on an old industrial building. I positioned my phone’s camera lens and flash over the end of the tube and here’s the photo.
The thing that looks like a bar crossing the interior spa...
The end is in sight: both for the construction of the Equitable Trust Building at 15 Broad Street in 1926-1928, and for this series of posts. Today’s the last post with exterior photos because, in skyscraper construction, once the facade is complete and the windows are installed, photographing the outside of the building every week gets sort of boring.
First, a good...
Looking north up Broadway, from about Fulton Street, in 1820:
The fancy building is City Hall, then eight years old. The street running off to the right is Park Row. Given that everything other than the street layout and City Hall has changed multiple times in the last two centuries, even City Hall Park, there’s nothing else here that’s familiar.
If yo...
After Perseus killed Medusa by cutting off her head, he carried her head around for a while, using it as a weapon. Apparently the head worked as well to turn people to stone as she had while alive, which seems odd. He eventually gave her head to Athena, who had it mounted on her shield, as one does.
On an old high-rise building with classically-inspired ornament, so...
In retrospect, it’s obvious that Isamu Noguchi’s “Red Cube” sculpture in front of 140 Broadway would have to be repainted once in a while. It just feels a little weird to see it.