More fakery, down the block from the building I was picking on a few months ago. The masonry over the entrance to the garage and courtyard is not supported by that supposed flat arch. This is a concrete-frame building with thin masonry veneer. The shorter the span, the easier it is to get a masonry …
That’s a new building – probably apartments with stores at the first floor – at the foot of Sixth Avenue in Tribeca, where it merges into Church Street. The style may not be to everyone’s taste but it jumped out at me because (a) it’s not another glass curtain wall and (b) some inventiveness was …
That’s a brownstone quarry in Portland, Connecticut, probably in the 1870s. They should have left it in the ground and used a better stone in construction.
At some point, I’m going to feel guilty about dissecting this building, but I’m not there yet. I see it every day and it bothers me. The first-floor windows, as I’ve discussed before, have fake flat-arch window heads that are problematic. The picture above extends up a bit from the one I used last time, …
I wrote about this building more than two years ago, but it caught my eye again recently. The picture above is part of the bottom two floors of a late-80s apartment house. The kindest thing I can say is that the architect tried to do the right thing with the thin-stone-veneer curtain wall, which is …
