Civic Architecture Workshop

05/08/2026

MY KIDS: we need a BMS!
ME: we have BMS at home

05/01/2026

A tasty bit of rooftop metalwork- Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn.

02/28/2026

11/19/2025

Absolutely Unit- the little brutalist Jamaica Bay branch of the Brooklyn Public library looking very pretty and corduroy in the autumn light. Anti-graffiti coating seems to be applied to the first floor, but this little guy remains unpainted and undaunted.

11/03/2025

My favorite thing today.

10/05/2025

Our work with Annie Weinstock and Walter Hook of BRTPlan on an expansive proposal for the coming center-running bus lanes on Flatbush is in Streetsblog. Let's make Atlantic Terminal the civic center it should be!

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/17/opinon-heres-how-to-bring-true-bus-rapid-transit-to-flatbush-avenue

10/05/2025

Our work with Annie Weinstock and Walter Hook of BRTPlan on an expansive proposal for the coming center-running bus lanes on Flatbush is in Streetsblog. Let's make Atlantic Terminal the civic center it should be!

09/28/2025

It's cardoon season, m'fers (or at least I hope it is)

07/09/2025

Me, whispering to myself every time I walk by this sign now: "Let's go, wanus!"

STREET ARTISTS OF BROOKLYN, BRING US SOME PUNCTUATION!

07/01/2025

New mallet- Osage and KY barn oak. Still needs a bit of finessing, but this the size and weight are perfect.

05/14/2025

Charming discovery in a Basement fan room today- somebody had painted little diagrams on the various branching ducts. What I love is that the little vignettes are both poetic AND functional- they tell you which direction the air is moving, whether it is hot or cold, etc. The building is from the 1920s, and the ductwork is probably original.