I used the piece of an old magazine above a while back to illustrate the cross-section of a Phoenix column: a group of arc segments with flanges that allow them to be riveted together into a circular column. I haven’t seen that many Phoenix columns, in part because most of the remaining structures with them …
I’m going to slide in a second helping of Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York” project this week. The picture above, taken on April 9, 1936, shows the Theoline tied up at pier 11 in the East River. Pier 11 is still around although greatly changed: it’s the hub of the new ferry service that began with the …
That’s a picture from a probe, looking at the structure under a stair in an Upper East Side rowhouse-turned-apartment-house. The photo was taken on an angle – you try sticking your phone in a hole and shooting blind and see how you do – so the piece of wood that occupies most of the upper …
There’s been a lot of news lately about various apps that use some form of artificial intelligence to create “art.” Speaking as an outsider to programming, they seem to me to be less about AI and more about identifying aspects of a given artist’s style and combining pre-made elements to imitate it in some way. …
While trawling through the HABS/HAER index, I came across “Partridge trusses.” I know a little bit about trusses and I’d never heard that term, so I followed up on it. Reuben Partridge was a carpenter based in Marysville, Ohio, near Columbus, with a career spanning from the 1830s to his death in 1900. He got a …
