Everyday Decon. Trumansburg, NY. 2012.
Another T-burg decon moment along Main Street. Thank god for grade changes!
Chinatown Loggias. Manhattan. 2012
My favorite quasi-modern façade in Chinatown, Manhattan. Long live the loggia.
Security/Life Safety Conundrum. Jackson Heights, Queens. NYC. 2013
…plus the fire escape ladder penetrates the restaurant awning and proceeds to land on the handicap ramp. (No disrespect to Lali Guras Restaurant…they have great food and a cozy authentic interior.)
Red Basket Balcony. Manhattan. 2010
Tucked up into the corner of a Greenwich Village beer garden courtyard, this balcony has an almost symbolic presence with its primer red color and fine lattice-like ironwork.
Jamaican Knights. Jamaica, Queens. NYC. 2013
A curious residential morphology, especially in an urban context. All roof and very few windows with each level peeling up from the one below. Probably the greatest surface-area-of-roof-to-volume-enclosed ratio I have ever seen. Like a pair of monumental medieval bascinets!
Everyday Eixample Courtyard. Barcelona, Spain. 2011
Vinyl Wrapper. Owego, NY. 2013
Baby blue vinyl wrapper that collects multiple renovations/additions into one homogeneous “package”.
Botched Corners #3. Binghamton, NY. 2004
One from the vault. Graphic red, boarded-up brick building in the Binghamton, NY section of the Rust Belt. Large horizontal fenestration grid meets staggered window pattern of stair “tower” at corner while slipped sidewalks try to manage grade. An almost abstract use of graphic color in architecture.
Factory Fin Wall. Long Island City, Queens, NYC. 2013.
A first video post for AH! Taken from the Q train just before arriving at Queensboro Plaza (please excuse the dirty windows). The extreme slenderness of this brick slab creates a baffling monument to blankness. The function of this form remains a bit of a mystery. Purely architectural? A flue collector? My architect/contractor friend that lived behind this building suggested it was background massing for signage along the street side edge. (Paul,you are wise!) Sure enough, at second glance, there are the remnants of anchor plates marching up the edge where brackets most likely were once attached. I will research this one a bit but in the meantime enjoy the first “motion b-side”!
