A building in Chicago with a problem we see all the time in New York. The front facade – on the right, around the corner – has hard-burned brick veneer with thin joints. That’s the classic nineteenth century fancy brick. The side wall – the one we’re looking at – is common brick with wide …
If you build an airport on landfill in the harbor, like Tokyo’s Haneda Airport above, you get freight ships passing by the runways. Note that the yellow tinge is from whatever UV coating was on the terminal’s windows.
I was in Albany last week and, as always, I took the train up and back. However, the train station is in the city of Rensselaer, on the east side of the Hudson River, and Albany is on the west side, so, as always, when I left the station I started walking. There’s one reasonable …
I’m back from the Construction History Society of America meeting – more about that soon – held on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After four days on campus, I still can’t tell you exactly where the boundary between the two towns is, as the campus layout completely ignores it. I was …
I was in Poughkeepsie last week and that’s a picture of my train ticket. “POKIPSE” is a pretty good phonetic spelling of the name, although I would have gone with POKIPSEE. I’m curious as to why the name was shortened: “GRAND CENTRAL” is 13 characters and “POUGHKEEPSIE” is 12, so it appears that the name …
