Seeing as how we’re north of 1100 blog posts (as of March 2019), it’s probably too late for a Frequently Asked Questions post, but here it is anyway. This is the blog of Old Structures Engineering. Most of the posts are written by me (Don Friedman) but not all. Topics include pretty much anything touching …
That plaque is on the wall of a 1960s building near our office, where it was apparently transplanted from the 1880s building previously on the site. The plaque faces Pearl Street, which was the East River waterfront in 1633, so the church must have been quite prominent to view for ships coming into to dock. …
I recently read an interesting article that seems to be a counter-example to Betteridge’s law of headlines. I don’t have much commentary on “Was the Automotive Era a Terrible Mistake?” by Nathan Heller other than to say read it. It’s a good piece.
That is not the fanciest arch you’ll ever see. It’s a flat arch made with common brick, and it looks like a few bricks were hand cut or broken on site to fit the “keystone” in the center. On the other hand, it’s been working for some 120 years, so I feel like I’m being …
I’m thinking I need to start a new feature that I could add to quite often. The good-looking building in the picture above, now an Italian restaurant, was the train station I should have been able to go to for my recent site visit upstate. The tracks are still there and active for freight trains, …
Kate Wagner‘s piece on the Green New Deal – “A Green New Home” – describes the nationwide effects of potential legislation to reduce pollution and carbon dioxide emissions. I like it, as I do nearly all of her work. But as I read it, I realized that the situation here is a bit different, and …
