The second project we worked on that won a Lucy Moses Award this year was Castle Clinton, the fort at the very southern tip of Manhattan. Over the last 210 years, it’s been a fort, a theater, New York’s immigration station, New York’s aquarium, and now a historic monument. In concept, it’s about as simple as …
Two project that we worked on received Lucy Moses awards from the New York Landmarks Conservancy this year. The first is the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, at 145 West 46th Street in Manhattan. It was designed by Pierre L. LeBrun of Napoleon LeBrun & Sons in 1894, in a thirteenth-century French Gothic motif. Per the Landmarks Designation Report, and reporting from the …
I’m out of town this coming week, at the APT conference in Detroit. Thanks to Covid, this is the first in-person conference since 2019. It’s in Detroit – the picture above shows the 1905 Penobscot Building (the tall one) and the 1900 State Savings Bank (the short one) – where I have not visited in …
Our website is back up after about a day of outage – no, we did not decide to present an all-white screen as a statement about minimalism – and our email is fully functional again. There’s an interesting engineering-adjacent story behind this, which I will tell tomorrow.
Just in time for the year being half-over, we’ve got a lot of staff news, and all of it good. First, Melanie McCloy is joining OSE today as an engineer, after graduating from Princeton in May. She can be reached at MMcCloy@oldstructures.nyc and extension 406. Ellen Key is moving from engineer to project manager, Shaquana …
