Comments about glass building

There are 44 comments about "glass building"

Joan: Looking down from the roof of 1212 Lincoln Place to a window in the adjacent building which fronted on Troy Ave, you could see Mr. Kopchich mixing the ppickles in the brine. Hurst's Pharmacy was......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

anon (customer7722.pool1.unallocated-111-0.orangehomedsl.co.uk): the sun has reflected off some glass on a building somewhere to create the bottom shadow?...

in response to: Sunset at Clayton, a Birds Eye View by joey

David Strang: I've always been fascinated by this little funky building, and am delighted that it has been saved. New construction surrounding the building was inevitable and a necessary aspect of saving this little tower. ......

in response to: Ivy Tower by Tyfoid Kid

cyni: the last photo is awesome -- i've seen this building from the outside (quite remarkable in its shape) but never ventured in. to see the city outside the square glass...marvellous capure. ...

in response to: Dallas City Hall by dfwtiger

T J O'BRIEN, ANNANDALE, VA: The article below it will mention the Luna Park. During the WW II I worked part-time for the New York Daily News as a copy boy. One afternoon I came in early at......

in response to: Luna Park: Coney Island by Peter

Pat Fleming (nee Brannan): What a great site!! Just spent a morning reading through the messages and re-living my youth. I lived at 93, Lyndhurst Ave until I was about 5 years old. I remember a lady called Phylis......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Pat Fleming (nee Brannan): What a great site!! Just spent a morning reading through the messages and re-living my youth. I lived at 93, Lyndhurst Ave until I was about 5 years old. I remember a lady called Phylis......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Cityplanner: Top 5 Canadian cities: Toronto: Toronto has so many skysrapers and so many of them that you will break you're neck trying to look up at them. Montreal: Montreal is probably the nicest in all of Canada......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

Elicar: The glass building is indeed the Ontario Power Generation Building although they occupy, I think, only two floors now. Most of the floors are rented out. Employees have been moved to either the Pickering offices......

in response to: Snow Day! by Michelle

Peter: whats that glass building in the first and second photos? its huge!...

in response to: Snow Day! by Michelle

MB: I agree with the previous commenter. We put new windows in an entire building through Park Slope Glass and just had a few problems - but you get nothing but a run around from......

in response to: Park Slope Glass & Windows by sine

Jan: Recently I took my grandson to the children's room in the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. It had not changed from the way I remember it in the 40's, except for the inclusion......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

rick: Stepha, you were in the same building that Irene Glassberg and Arlene Tobin lived in. Although, younger that I (I graduated PS 241 8th grade in 1957), they were more my contemporaries (and I am......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Andre: D Bennet? I grew up in the hornets also. I lived in 1920 and 1943. I grew up with them also and I was there when Laffy threw the glass at chris. I know them......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

joey: i really like the studies of 111 broadway. the gargoyles look like they actually fly. old buildings have much more character than those boring glass boxes in the earlier shots....

in response to: DownTown by barry

CE: Great pic. I was jsut talking about this place with my neighbour last night. He just moved his glass shop out of this place into my building....

in response to: RCA Building by Cinic

procyon: peter: too bad about the sane stuff getting painted over! i read somewhere that someone is rehabilitating the place, though... as a resident of a beautiful old building with a lot of terra cotta sculptural......

in response to: Road Trip, Part II by procyon

Micah: The Moncton skyline as viewed from Lewisville Road is much more impressive: you see not just the tall commercial buildings but also some nice old ones, church steeples, etc., too that are hidden when viewed......

in response to: The Top 10 Canadian Skylines by CE

BVD: for some reason woke up yesterday thinking way back to high school and graffiti/symbols of that time which included the flipped glass of ‘missing foundation’ and other things...started googling and found this site...back then as......

in response to: Sane Smith: Puttin' the Green in Greenpoint by Peter

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I used to live at the end of a hall in a big apartment building on the upper west side of Manhattan. Our position afforded us a great view of the whole corridor. Toward the......

in response to: Effective Communication by Marlo

anon (ip68-97-53-138.ok.ok.cox.net): Norman's really not that bad. As far as OK towns are concerned, I do prefer Tulsa, but Norman has a lot more going for it than the pictures you posted. That building is......

in response to: America's Most Boring Towns: 1 by Scott Sargent

aer suzuki: "you dont want it turning up online/getting photographed/discussed, then dont do it in public ;) thats why people dont fuck in public, carry out personal melodramas in public (often) or walk around nude in public." but......

in response to: Mullets Galore! by Peter

Peter: "do i have the right?" well, most people accept the tenet that anything done in public is in the public domain, unless otherwise specified. thats why cabs that use cc-tv warn you, thats why calls......

in response to: Mullets Galore! by Peter

Chris Erb: I have pictures of the protest prior to the arrest which I will post when I get home. If you were there, you would know that the protest was completly civil and low key.......

in response to: I Was Arrested Today by CE

elaine: i am on the 4th floor, and although rats can climb, i don't know that they would come up specially. i did see a squirrel on the roof of the opposite building once, but i......

in response to: Fledgling Greenfinches by elaine

Joe: I've lived on Jefferson btwn Irving and Knickerbocker for a year. It's gotten a little better just in that time. We moved here because we got priced out of our old neighborhood, Park Slope. Our......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Cameo: I live in the area... Sure there is a little spilled concrete on Bathurst street here and there... It's annoying to ride up there on my road bike. And sure, the windows in......

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

jeeff: ha, cool. i lived in a building with a pool on the roof, 27 floors up. the pool was enclosed (glass walls and ceiling) but you could sunbathe outside. it was really......

in response to: Astor Place Silhouette by Peter

Peter: this was taken from inside the area that is in the third photo: [[img:4294]] its the set of two glass towers (rising from a single base) to the immediate left of the far right building in this......

in response to: Construction Site: AOL/Time-Warner Center by Peter

Peter: those are actually from {cental park}, looking south towards the southwest entrance of the park at {columbus circle}. i can tell because i see the dual glass-towers of the {time warner center} building there, rather......

in response to: Trees and Buildings by julie

EvilGentleman: Interesting shots of the skeleton of the old porn theatre (was it the Eve or the Picadilly? I can't remember. Never went in one of those places in my life). It really helps to illustrate......

in response to: montreal by hool

jack: there is a world beyond the buildings of glass and steel...

in response to: View from My Office in Calgary by Helen

Peter: aah! that rules! i love how the column comes up between the brick building and the glass building, and how the statues just seem to lap over the brock building. very pretty. you did well......

in response to: Slice of Grand Central by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Sine, these pictures are really cool. Makes me feel all 'Logans Run" or something. I love the classic NY buildings seen through the glass and steel. ...

in response to: Hayden Planetarium by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

elaine: the back to front music notation bothers me a bit, but not as much as the thought of the giant je ne sais quoi roaming the streets, hungrily, crawling up buildings to gnaw at signs,......

in response to: Musical Sign by joey

fuzzytank: both buildings appear in those pesky architectural history books they want me to buy each school year H. H. Richardsons Trinity Church (1873-7) is reflected in the glass of the John Hancock tower (not to be......

in response to: unruly overview by fuzzytank

elaine: yeah, i like that one as well jamie, while mirrory buildings reflecting other mirrory buildings has a pleasing swimmingpool feel, it can get overwhelming if that's all there is, this has a weird cut and......

in response to: unruly overview by fuzzytank

jack: i was 17 when i stepped out of the subway at rector street in june of 1960. i walked down to washington street and cedar street and started working in a printing shop which......

in response to: The World Trade Center Site by Peter

kc: I like progression to the smoky revelation...and the deconstruction/fracturing at the end. It reminds me of this brownstone in Greenwich Village that got blown up, by accident if I remember correctly, in the 1970s, I......

in response to: demolition by elaine

elaine: fuzzytank - lets take your last comment first... would be my guess lots of bombsites from WW2 mainly shape the higgledy piggledyness of london - after the big fire, that is, and there was a bomb......

in response to: The Gherkin by Hasslehoff

V.F.: In the reflections of the bland Express store windows you can see the Art Institute of Philadelphia building which is a stunning building. The art deco/machine age design seems so out of place when......

in response to: art deco echo by vz

elaine: uncomfortable thing to have a souveneir of, I imagine, and certainly a momento mori. The way you write about this is the most evocative and meaningful account I have read. I was in NY the......

in response to: Kinematics by Peter

fuzzytank: heh ok ok given the conditions: grey day in seattle, hand held digi without posibility of filters, no tripod. the steel is monochromatic matte finish dull bluish grey but the best part is that the windows are......

in response to: Public Library by fuzzytank

Hugh Manatee: NYC can't decide where to put the magnificent statue which symbolizes, arguably more than any other, its entrepreneurial drive? Why not follow the example of Florence,Italy? Michelangelo's original "David" is protected from the......

in response to: NYC: The AT&T Building by Peter