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 …
We are proud to have been involved with another project that has won a Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award: the conversion of the T Building at the Queens Hospital Center from an obsolete and unneeded facility, built in 1940 as the Triboro Hospital for Tuberculosis, to affordable housing. As always, it’s important to note that …
Three projects that OSE worked on have won 2021 Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards from the New York Landmarks Conservancy. That’s good news and, considering that the awards are given to the project as a whole, it’s good news for a lot of firms other than just us. Our congratulations to all, since successful completion …
