The Woolworth Building
More events for a 100th birthday party: Gail Fenske’s talk on Cass Gilbert and Frank Woolworth. My talk on wind bracing and Gunvald Aus. The Medieval or Modern Symposium.
Talking History
I’ll be speaking at the Skyscraper Museum on May 15. The talk concerns the engineers and engineering developments of early skyscrapers that culminated in the construction of the Woolworth Building in 1913.
Historic Structural Detail 4
Because technical language changes at a different rate than technology, we sometimes use obsolete words to describe new things and we sometimes use new words to describe old (or oldish) things. Case in point: people started referring to “curtain walls” in the 1890s, when the non-structural walls in question were 12 (or more) inches of …
International News, Sort Of
Here’s OSE’s very own Gabi Pardo, helping describe Grand Central for a Spanish news show on the terminal’s 100th anniversary: Grand Central cumple 100 años.
Adaptive Reuse: Firehouse to Philharmonic
One of our projects gets a little press: the conversion of a closed firehouse to a new home for the Brooklyn Philharmonic. The project has been delayed several times, but should be quite nice when completed.