Just before the New York State PAUSE began, I visited our hospital-to-low-income-housing project in Queens. Honestly, I like being on construction sites, even if I have to wear a mask to do so. Engineers usually don’t get to build our designs, so seeing them during construction is as close as we get to the thrill …
Because of our project at the Park Row / Ivins / Syndicate Building, I’ve written about it many times. It did not represent a huge increase in height over its predecessors, but in some ways it did point to what was coming. It was a purely speculative venture: 27 main floors (and another three in …
Once again, a photo of the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Sava. This is looking north, from the nave into the apse. We’ve reached completion of the structural work: the new sanctuary floor is done, and now the new roof structure is complete. The apse roof, which is in part a five-sided half-cone, is in …
“The old Jehovah’s Witnesses headquarters in Brooklyn Heights now has 11 lush gardens. We’ve got photos” by Lore Croghan is a nice description of the intensive landscape design and construction at the Panorama project in Brooklyn Heights. I haven’t discussed this project much and may have to get around to addressing that gap, but the …
We’ve been working for some time – by which I mean a little over nine years – at the Roslyn Grist Mill on Long Island. It’s not often we get to work on a building this old, and it’s a challenge in every possible way: the heavy-timber frame had been badly altered in some places …
