Comments on: Ageloff Bones http://gammablog.com/2009/07/01/ageloff-bones/ NYC Street Art, Architecture from the East Village Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:21:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Flickr: GammaBlog http://gammablog.com/2009/07/01/ageloff-bones/comment-page-1/#comment-22508 Flickr: GammaBlog Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:58:50 +0000 http://gammablog.com/?p=5071#comment-22508 Yes, definitely steel framed you can see it here: www.flickr.com/photos/gammablablog/3680386302/sizes/o/in/... For as long as you've been away from NYC, Randall, you can still come up with the stories. Yes, definitely steel framed you can see it here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gammablablog/3680386302/sizes/o/in/...
For as long as you’ve been away from NYC, Randall, you can still come up with the stories.

]]> By: Flickr: GammaBlog http://gammablog.com/2009/07/01/ageloff-bones/comment-page-1/#comment-19223 Flickr: GammaBlog Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:58:50 +0000 http://gammablog.com/?p=5071#comment-19223 Yes, definitely steel framed you can see it here: www.flickr.com/photos/gammablablog/3680386302/sizes/o/in/... For as long as you've been away from NYC, Randall, you can still come up with the stories. Yes, definitely steel framed you can see it here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gammablablog/3680386302/sizes/o/in/...
For as long as you’ve been away from NYC, Randall, you can still come up with the stories.

]]> By: Flickr: Arch-Sculptures http://gammablog.com/2009/07/01/ageloff-bones/comment-page-1/#comment-22507 Flickr: Arch-Sculptures Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:24:28 +0000 http://gammablog.com/?p=5071#comment-22507 This building has a tragic history, as I remember reading, the guy who built this building lost all his money in the crash of '29 and the building wasn't completed yet. He committed suicide by jumping off the roof. Interesting how it appears they used terra cotta blocks for the walls and faced them with brick, tells me it must be a steel frame building with curtain walls attached to the steel rather than being solid load bearing brick as was typical a decade or two earlier. This building has a tragic history, as I remember reading, the guy who built this building lost all his money in the crash of ’29 and the building wasn’t completed yet. He committed suicide by jumping off the roof.

Interesting how it appears they used terra cotta blocks for the walls and faced them with brick, tells me it must be a steel frame building with curtain walls attached to the steel rather than being solid load bearing brick as was typical a decade or two earlier.

]]> By: Flickr: Arch-Sculptures http://gammablog.com/2009/07/01/ageloff-bones/comment-page-1/#comment-19218 Flickr: Arch-Sculptures Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:24:28 +0000 http://gammablog.com/?p=5071#comment-19218 This building has a tragic history, as I remember reading, the guy who built this building lost all his money in the crash of '29 and the building wasn't completed yet. He committed suicide by jumping off the roof. Interesting how it appears they used terra cotta blocks for the walls and faced them with brick, tells me it must be a steel frame building with curtain walls attached to the steel rather than being solid load bearing brick as was typical a decade or two earlier. This building has a tragic history, as I remember reading, the guy who built this building lost all his money in the crash of ’29 and the building wasn’t completed yet. He committed suicide by jumping off the roof.

Interesting how it appears they used terra cotta blocks for the walls and faced them with brick, tells me it must be a steel frame building with curtain walls attached to the steel rather than being solid load bearing brick as was typical a decade or two earlier.

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