Old Structures Engineering

Adaptive Reuse: Firehouse to Philharmonic

by Don Friedman on January 28, 2013

One of our projects gets a little press: the conversion of a closed firehouse to a new home for the Brooklyn Philharmonic. The project has been delayed several times, but should be quite nice when completed.

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Stanford White Awards

December 5, 2012

The Institute for Classical Architecture & Art has announced its first group of design awards, and two projects that Old Structures collaborated on have won. Drumlin Hall is a large, classically styled private residence in the Hudson Valley designed by Peter Pennoyer Architects and completed in 2010. The Carnegie Hill apartment building is an addition [...]

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Sandy

November 1, 2012

There’s some irony in a structural firm that performs forensic investigation of buildings being shut down by storm damage, but here we are. Our office is fine and the building is open again as of today, but our staff is stranded across the city without reliable transportation and the area surrounding our office is not [...]

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Michael Lo

September 4, 2012

Michael Lo joined Old Structures Engineering in August as an Associate. Michael has more than twenty years experience as a structural engineer, and has worked on new building, renovation and addition, and historic preservation projects. He worked with Marie at a previous job for most of the 1990s, and with both Marie and Don in [...]

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Temporary Bracing

February 14, 2012

We are currently working on combining two brownstones to create one very large single family residential home on the Upper West Side. The buildings have landmarked facades which we will preserve while creating a new steel framed building within the existing facade. The existing party wall dividing the two lots will be removed to create [...]

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Mona Abdelfatah

October 19, 2011

Mona Abdelfatah started at Old Structures Engineering yesterday as an engineer. Mona has experience in the design of both renovations and new construction, and will be continuing to work on both types of projects. She is a graduate of UC San Diego and has passed her E.I.T exam.  

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Lucky, Twice

August 29, 2011

In the past seven days, we had an earthquake that turned out to be very minor and a hurricane that was not minor but whose effects largely by-passed the city. While OSE would benefit financially from either event being worse than it was, I feel that NYC was lucky twice and we should all be [...]

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We’re Hiring

August 15, 2011

Business has been good for the last year and we’re looking to expand. If you are (or know) a structural engineer with 3 to 5 years experience, send us your resume. The title is “design engineer”, but given the size of our firm and the collaborative way we work, we all do a little of [...]

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Our New Website

August 4, 2011

The recent switch to a new website was based on technical issues. While the software we were using previously had a blog-style layout that we used for our news and projects pages, modifying it meant reopening the entire site in the software, editing, and then FTPing the whole thing back to our web host. The [...]

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Welcome, Again

July 28, 2011

Welcome to our new website. Now that we’ve moved the blog here from its temporary home, we’ll be updating the projects list and other content. As I said in the introduction to the blog, we’d love to have your comments on what we say here and we hope you subscribe.

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