The picture above, from the marketing book for the Broadway Chambers Building, is one of a sequence showing the steel frame as it was being erected. The first photo, showing columns just sticking up at grade, is dated October 26, 1899; the last regular photo is from January 18, 1900 and shows the frame topped …
The marketing books for skyscrapers that I’ve looked at recently were for very tall buildings. The Singer and Woolworth Buildings were each the tallest in the world when they were built and their books were released; the City Investing Building was among the tallest. The Broadway Chambers Building, on the other hand, was far from …
The level of ornament put on an early-1900s skyscraper like the City Investing Building can make it hard to believe that it’s all structurally supported by a steel frame. The picture above shows the Broadway entrance to the building, at the far eastern end of the long narrow neck of the building that leads to …
(Above, the personification of Prudence, with pet dragon.) A few years ago, I went down a rabbit hole of reading on the topic of epistemology. This is an incredibly complex topic, in part because it’s reflexive (how do you know that the theory of knowledge you have is actually a meaningful theory of knowledge?) and …
The page above was added to the library scan of a 1924 code. (I assume it was added to any number of old codes, but I only saw it in the one document.) In one sense, that statement is straightforward and means exactly what it says: anyone designing a new structure should be using the …
