Three related articles: “Open offices are as bad as they seem—they reduce face-to-face time by 70%” by Beth Mole, “Acoustic Furniture Won’t Save You from Open Offices” by Kate Wagner, and “The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea” by David Hansson. The shared theme can be teased out by careful …
Those two old buildings are, as far as I can tell, 49 and 53 Worth Street, and I’ll explain the hedging later on. They’re listed in the Department of Buildings records, incorrectly, as having been constructed in 1915 – they are mid-1800s loft buildings most likely used at first as stores and/or warehouses. They are …
The new West Thames Street Bridge is, in terms of design, something of an oddity. It’s a lenticular truss, and that’s a design that was never very common and hasn’t been used much in something over 100 years. I have no idea why the designers – WYX Architecture and Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers – choose this form, …
Great Jones Street has a nice collection of industrial and loft buildings from the mid-1800s through the 1920s. I took this picture because the two small “stable” buildings caught my attention. The stable name comes from the pediments: The two buildings – 31 and 33 Great Jones – are similar but not identical, and the …
That’s the (functional) chimney of a very large house constructed in the 1910s in imitation of the style of English country houses. There is no reason for the complex and ornamental shape of the chimney other than the sheer joy of it.
