More information on The Structure of Skyscrapers, my history of the development of tall-building structural technology put to 1900, is at the link above. Or click on the book cover below. More information on City of Brick and Steel, our guide to the structure of buildings in New York City, is at the link above. …
An aerial view from March 1940. We’re flying over the Hudson, looking south and a bit east. The East River is visible on the other side of lower Manhattan, downtown Brooklyn is just past the tip of the Woolworth Building, and then miles and miles of houses until you get to Jamaica Bay way off …
This photo carries several tags at the Library of Congress website, but the one that caught my eye was “Traffic congestion.” Yes, there’s a fair amount of traffic, but by post-1950 standards that just doesn’t seem so bad. As a matter of fact, it’s better than it looks: the sidewalks at that location (see below) …
The picture above is not the building I’ll be talking about. It was simply the first one I came to in my collection that had bearing masonry arches. The building I’m talking about will remain nameless: it was large, owned by a non-profit institution, and located in upstate New York, and it was demolished some …
I used to spend a lot of time worrying about getting the right shot. I was using a relatively bulky film camera, with 36 shots on a roll of film and almost always no more than two rolls of film with me. Every shot had to count, or at least I had to try to …
Again, the ground rules. I’m going to accept all of the basic premises of the movie as given, and not discuss things like inertia on fast turns turning Tony Strark to lumpy jelly inside his armor, or, a topic of many years of debate, why the Hulk’s pants don’t rip off entirely when he transforms. …
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