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From an early-1900s textbook on managing an architecture or engineering office, an illustration of a daily log book:
It looks very familiar.
The most foreign thing about it is that all of the office’s drawings are numbered consecutively, so “Work No. 300” might have “Drawing No. 501 and 502.” The most familiar thing about it is “Letters to Contractors ...
Structural typologies have been around far longer than modern structural engineering. The last pre-1776 building I discussed was a grist mill on Long Island, and, astonishingly, today’s building, a grist mill on Long Island, looks very similar. It’s rea...
From Max Hubacher, February 9, 1951, “Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, N.Y.”:
That’s the Willamsburg Bank tower in the center, looking lonely. As I’ve discussed before, this was the third-tallest building on the east coast not in Manhattan when i...
From 1907 or so, a postcard of “New York. The site for the Tunnel Terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad 34th. St.”
Why would people want a postcard of a construction site? Particularly one with a photo so blurry that someone familiar with the construction of Penn Station (me) can’t figure out exactly what we’re looking at? Answers to both questions: see the post...
When the Brooklyn Bridge was in construction, and when it was new, there were any number of reports on how incredibly tall it was. To be fair, the bridges towers were the second and third tallest structures in the city when first built, with only the spire of Trinity Church being higher, but the towers are not in the middle of the city, but rather out at the edges of the East...