NYC Facades

Was the building expanded on one side only? (Note: the curving facade is an artifact of the panorama stitching)

I like how The Home Depot fits with the building style. Look at the seal! The "S" is for "Stern" -- see below.

Some buildings I see details I like a lot, and some I am blown away by. This was the latter. It just had such great detail and scale. The facade was finished the entire height, and it even had a mystery: why is there a modern extension on the eastern side that does not match that on the western? Was there a patio there? Was it destroyed in an accident and rebuilt in a time without style?

EDIT: New York Architecture has a page about this building (with a slightly different address?). As the author says on that site about the extension,

W.M. Schickel’s typically 19th century addition tripled the dimensions of the original structure on the eastern portion of the site. The tall central section of this addition animates the long and delicately detailed facade. The company’s monogram is located above a central arch.

I do think Home Depot does a great job here with respecting the building (although they could have done with less orange). See also 28 West 23rd.

Shot from the train station beneath the Henry Hudson Bridge, facing south.

Henry Hudson Bridge from Inwood Hill Park

I admit my picture was not actually of the Bridge, but was in my narrative regarding Robert Moses (see the first trackback).

A massive modern building with its own appeal

When I first visited this part of the campus, the sun was behind it and the effect of it shining through the entrance at the center of the picture. It was also between classes, and hundreds of students were swarming over the plaza and stairs. This picture does not do justice to both the enormity and also the redeeming merits of the building I saw then.

Panorama facing west. Click for a much bigger version.

Steinman Hall from the eastern, St. Nicholas Terrace

Detail of the doorway to east entrance to Steinman Hall

The flagship campus of City University of New York is City College, at 137th Street and Convent avenue. Top is a panorama of the campus, with the North Academic Center at left, and Wingate, Harris, Compton & Goethals, and Baskerville Halls are the gothic buildings left to right from there. This picture is taken from in front of Steinman Hall; the bottom to pictures are from the east side of the campus on St. Nicholas Campus, and are of the other side of Steinman Hall.

The entire old campus has great curb appeal, and I found it a very inspiring setting.

Here is a map of City College I used; match it up to the Google map (you may need to zoom in).

A very clean design

See these notes from Columbia College. Located at 1 Wall Street at Broadway.

View to the south

In the canyons of the financial district it is surprising to have any open area such as this square, formed by Pearl, Wall and Beaver Streets.

View to the southwest

View from Water Street of Coenties slip.

View to the northwest

See a post on my personal blog for more on this (and why I care about it).

A panorama of Bowling Green

From a walking tour I did in January, 2009.