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Now that's a skinny moment frame
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Now that's a skinny moment frame

Now that's a skinny moment frame

(OP)
The Times building - about 1903 - in New York.  Quite the moment frame.  

(This is not the Flatiron building in NY but similar to it)

RE: Now that's a skinny moment frame

I was tempted to compare it to Flatiron building, but better I refrain... taste is so personal thing, and both are nice fellows, seeing what we are accustomed to stand.

Also interesting to observe how one extreme brings the other, extreme slenderness a sturdy design. This must be the fearful symmetry in Blake's nature, and from peotical symbolism we could derive to philosophy -even natural philosophy- as a tool for human happiness ...

RE: Now that's a skinny moment frame

JAE,

I think I did an inspection at the top of that one! I it was for signs or davits and the plant area was very congested.

It is not as slender as it looks as it is more of a triangular shape though it is still pretty slender.

RE: Now that's a skinny moment frame

so let's see...for wind analysis, a partially enclosed sign?  I wonder what type of foundation it has.  Sizeable OT moment with little to resist.

Thanks, JAE.

RE: Now that's a skinny moment frame

(OP)
I just can't help it - I'm addicted to old photos....and especially old photos of a structural nature.

 

RE: Now that's a skinny moment frame

Thanks JAE!  

Keep posting these types of things. I love seeing these types of photos too.   

RE: Now that's a skinny moment frame

I like .... i like .. tooooo slender. tnx JAE.

@ csd72,  you did inspection climbing the rope ladders and cantilever timber scaffolding? Bravery!!!

RE: Now that's a skinny moment frame

Odd how they skipped the cladding for 3-6 floor

RE: Now that's a skinny moment frame

Page down of photo 36 and 37. Who made glulam arches in South Dakota in 1891? (I think they are glulam.) That stuff amazes me. It was pretty darn western in SoDak in 1891! They were dodging arrows building that.

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Tony Krempin, PE
TopKnot Engineering
 

RE: Now that's a skinny moment frame

I guessing this was way before they checked lateral drift.

RE: Now that's a skinny moment frame

TopKnot,
Hard to tell, but I'm guessing those are concrete arches.

RE: Now that's a skinny moment frame

(OP)
I didn't see any lam  lines in the photos.

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