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STEEL CANOPY GUARDS STONE AGE BUILDING (Apr, 1933)
STEEL CANOPY GUARDS STONE AGE BUILDING Government engineers have just erected the odd steel umbrella pictured above to shelter from the elements a twelfth-century pueblo watch-tower in Arizona....
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NOVEL SLEEPING PORCH (May, 1929)
NOVEL SLEEPING PORCH MANY families would like to have a sleeping porch on their home if the cost of remodeling wasn’t so expensive. A German architect recently designed a method of attaching a...
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BUILDING IS MODELED AS BIRTHDAY CAKE (May, 1929)
I remember this building from when I lived in Minneapolis. It was built by Wilber Foshay, a utility magnate who was later convicted for running a pyramid scheme. Check out the Wikipedia entry for an...
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Super Terminal for Trucks (Sep, 1947)
I grew up right near this building and it really is quite massive. It is now one of UPS’s main hubs in Manhattan. Super Terminal for Trucks Colossal union truck terminals like this will help reduce the...
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German Architects Develop Unique, Low-Cost Buildings (May, 1931)
German Architects Develop Unique, Low-Cost Buildings ECONOMIC conditions in Germany since the war have compelled German architects to develop a type of architecture that is distinctly different from...
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Brick Lion Guards City Hall (Mar, 1930)
While it does have that whole Minecraft/8-bit look about it, that is a pretty terrible rendition of a lion. Brick Lion Guards City Hall AN INTERESTING illustration of what can be done with common,...
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House of Steel (Sep, 1947)
House of Steel Want to live in a metal house? The one pictured here has frame, roof and wall sheets all of processed steel. Blanket type insulation and a system of natural ventilation help keep it...
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Houses Built on Stilts are Novel Lake Dwellings (May, 1929)
Houses Built on Stilts are Novel Lake Dwellings ONE OF the most remarkable summer camps in the country is the colony which has been established at Milnensburg, Louisiana, in the shallow waters of Lake...
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Outdoor Community Elevator / Three-Wheeled Auto (Oct, 1924)
The Hollywood High Tower elevator is still there and still in use. To that let me add this aerial view from Google Maps. Outdoor Community Elevator Serves Dwellers on Lofty Hillside Rising like the...
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UGLY NORDHOFF BECOMES BEAUTIFUL OJAI (Oct, 1923)
Charlie, here is the same scene from the bottom of the page at Google Maps. UGLY NORDHOFF BECOMES BEAUTIFUL OJAI By C. MORAN THE transformation of a shack-and-shanty town into a place of architectural...
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“Mother Goose” Bungalow Shelters Nesting Ducks (Nov, 1938)
I love the mix of items on this page. “Mother Goose” Bungalow Shelters Nesting Ducks Looking as if it had been plucked right from the pages of a “Mother Goose” book, a bungalow for ducks stands on the...
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Fold-Up Homes Travel With You (Oct, 1952)
Fold-Up Homes Travel With You By JAMES JOSEPH TODAY’S home designers have reached into the seven seas, borrowed an old habit from the turtle, and come up with houses you can carry with you. The result...
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Sightseeing Restaurant for Chicago World’s Fair in 1933 (Aug, 1930)
It’s a pity this building was never made, it would have been pretty awesome. It kind of looks like part of a giant crankshaft. Norman bel Geddes went on to design wildly popular General Motors Futurama...
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Glimpses of of Men in the Public Eye (May, 1929)
Glimpses of of Men in the Public Eye WHEN, a little more than ten years ago, Edward R. Armstrong first propounded his idea of building a series of great floating airdromes and anchoring them at...
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ONE OF LARGEST ARENAS (May, 1929)
ONE OF LARGEST ARENAS Hollywood bowl, where thousands of Californians enjoy outdoor entertainments, is one of the largest arenas of this type in the world. Nine pianos were used at one time in a...
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“Backyard” Kitchen, Bath Units Speed Housing Program (Dec, 1942)
“Backyard” Kitchen, Bath Units Speed Housing Program Packaged rooms designed by a Californian to speed the construction of homes for war workers provide complete kitchen and bathroom units. They...
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Houses While You Wait (Jun, 1946)
Houses While You Wait are the product of this giant house-building machine, which erects a two-bedroom concrete home in 24 hours. After the giant machine is wheeled into the desired location, its...
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Mobile Home With a Fold-Out Living Room (Jul, 1961)
Mobile Home With a Fold-Out Living Room Ten feet wide so it can travel on highways, a new mobile home has hinged walls that swing out to form a 14 by 14-foot living room. In addition, it has two...
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BARREL HOUSE READY FOR OCCUPANTS (Jul, 1934)
BARREL HOUSE READY FOR OCCUPANTS A house in which steel hoops take the place of joists, rafters and studding, has just been completed at Dusseldorf, Germany. According to the architect who originated...
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Construction of Storm Caves Is a Profitable Profession (Sep, 1930)
While they are great for tornadoes, storm cellars are about the worst place you can hide during a hurricane like the one that’s hitting now since they fill up with water and you’ll drown. Unless you’ve...
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Heliport tops World’s Fair restaurant (Jan, 1964)
Heliport tops World’s Fair restaurant Helicopters for visitors to the New York World’s Fair will land on and take oft from a foot heliport atop a two-level 1,000-seat restaurant and 400-seat cocktail...
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MAN-MADE QUAKES TEST BUILDING’S STABILITY (Mar, 1924)
Wow. The Japanese have been quake testing buildings for a long time. Here’s a video of more recent, slightly larger test. MAN-MADE QUAKES TEST BUILDING’S STABILITY Tests to determine the type of...
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MONEY VAULT LIKE FORTRESS IS SURROUNDED BY MOAT / TOURIST CAMP IN TREE TRUNK...
MONEY VAULT LIKE FORTRESS IS SURROUNDED BY MOAT Surrounded by a deep moat and covered with a bomb-proof roof, a safety deposit vault, constructed on the lines of a medieval fortress and considered...
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Escape Chute (Apr, 1948)
Escape Chute can evacuate the entire 136-bed Georgia Baptist Hospital, Atlanta, in only a few minutes. In case of fire, patients can be picked up, mattress and all, and slid to safety down the spiral...
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Swinging Buildings to Defy Quakes (Aug, 1936)
Swinging Buildings to Defy Quakes UNTIL the age of steel construction, no building could be trusted to defy an earthquake; but a steel building, riveted or welded together, will stand quite a wrench...
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BACK TO THE MUD HOUSE (Feb, 1909)
BACK TO THE MUD HOUSE By H. G. HUNTING IE word concrete has a sound that would be expected to warn away rather than to attract the housekeeper and home-maker. Its associations are all of the sort that...
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MILLIONS SPENT ON RAILROAD STATIONS (Feb, 1909)
MILLIONS SPENT ON RAILROAD STATIONS By SAMUEL O. DUNN Western Editorial Manager. Railroad Age Gazette THE typical American railroad passenger station of the past has been a building so dingy, so ugly...
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Airplane Field for Tall City Buildings (Oct, 1937)
This is one of those incredibly bad ideas that everyone seemed to have at the same time. Maybe it had to do with the coincidence of a fad for aviation and one for skyscrapers. Whatever the reason, they...
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People Who Live in Glass Houses (Sep, 1936)
Did they give this picture to an intern and say “Here, you have five minutes, write something!”? Because a quarter of the “article” is composed of the owner’s name and genealogy and the headline is...
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AUTO “STAGE” DEPOT HAS COMFORTS OF BIG HOTEL (Mar, 1924)
AUTO “STAGE” DEPOT HAS COMFORTS OF BIG HOTEL To provide comfortable waiting rooms for patrons, and furnish employes with proper quarters, an automobile transport company in the west has built a depot...
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