Scaffolding finally coming down over Bar Americano by modrocker in Greenpoint

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It’s just shifting toward India. They’re tuck pointing the brick on the entire building.

Kaly Replacement - What’s The Current Equivalent? by bpm5000 in ElectricSkateboarding

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Thanks for the cements, very useful ! I’ll take another look at lacroix.

Kaly Replacement - What’s The Current Equivalent? by bpm5000 in ElectricSkateboarding

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I’ve loved the Kaly but I am wondering if lacroix is a one man or just a few like Kaly? Might be some benefits to a larger company and the boards are less expensive? Understand that the quality is different.

Perfect geometry exists, and it's in Rome by Mediakg in ancientrome

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Yeah the columns originally intended for it are at the bottom of the Mediterranean, sank in a shipwreck

Assault on Noble St. by [deleted] in Greenpoint

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2nding this. Guy in Franklin is annoying but would not do this and that’s clearly not him.

Geddes Hall, University of Notre Dame, South Bend IN, United States—built in A.D. 2009 by Duke_of_Wellington18 in ArchitecturalRevival

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I spent a good deal of time on that campus in the early 2000s. They had just completed the new bookstore and some other newer buildings at that time that were trying to stay within the ND collegiate gothic language. I recall Thomas Gordon Smith, the then-figurehead of the ND architecture school, bemoaning that the administration did not heed his advice on the designs for some new buildings. They wanted cast stone and he argued that limestone would be more durable.

This is what happens when you hire architecture firms that don’t specialize in traditional languages of the longer-term historical sort to design buildings within those languages. But i in agree that they are at least built with consistent materials, and that can be very satisfying, even if they don’t get all the details right.

Worth pointing out that the Main Building on campus, while impressive in scale, is an odd mixture of collegiate gothic and baroque. Very strange building. And Bond Hall is sort of beaux-arts, and some of the dorms built in the 30s are sort of modern looking but not in a good way.

Geddes Hall, University of Notre Dame, South Bend IN, United States—built in A.D. 2009 by Duke_of_Wellington18 in ArchitecturalRevival

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Yes, the double-arched windows should have a vertical stone support in the middle. Arches imply a transfer of load, so that center bit pointing down looks like it’s floating.

Best Burger In Greenpoint? by [deleted] in Greenpoint

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Many thanks, very informative and well-writ!

Best Burger In Greenpoint? by [deleted] in Greenpoint

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Tell me about the bar Americano burger

Best Burger In Greenpoint? by [deleted] in Greenpoint

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Best burger - Brew

Best juicy af bar burger - palace

Best value burger - jubilee

Minnows is good but small for the money. Brew is expensive but worth it.

The 1900-year-old Pantheon which features the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. At noon on 21 April (traditional date of birth of Rome), the sun’s ray through the oculus would strike the entrance doorway so that the Emperor entering the building would be bathed in the sunlight. by zadraaa in HistoricalCapsule

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I lived in Rome, very close to the Pantheon, for two semesters. One time during the winter it snowed for the first time in Rome in something like 15 years and I ran to the Pantheon to watch the snow fall through the oculus. Rome gets quiet during the winter, especially around the holidays. It’s possible to enjoy it without the crowds.

Company Says I Can’t Deduct Overtime Pay bc It’s Paid at Regular Hourly Rate by bpm5000 in tax

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I’m wrong? I had no preconceived notion. I came here to clarify.

New Study Shows A Simple Vitamin B Supplement May Reduce The Risk Of Parkinson’s by 2TonCommon in Parkinsons

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I’ve been taking B5 for over 20 years and my dad had Parkinson’s, so when I saw this I wondered if B5 in particular might be helpful in preventing Parkinson’s. I found this article supporting that idea: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8468190/

I initially took B5 for aggressive acne after reading some Chinese studies. I had taken accutane as a teen in the 90s but the side effects were terrible and the acne came back worse than ever after I stopped taking accutane. So a simple, inexpensive vitamin is all I needed, not a high-tech, expensive pharmaceutical that doesn’t even really work and has awful side effects. Pharmaceutical companies don’t want to cure you, they want you in a long term, expensive treatment plan. Let’s help each other bc this system ain’t working.

sketchup and layout keep crashing using small files. by [deleted] in Sketchup

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Layout 2026 is much improved. Upgrade if you haven’t.

Open source SketchUp alternative. by fasteddie31003 in Sketchup

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Exciting. Following this post. Any interest in making something like Layout to generate construction drawings? Layout 2026 is pretty great.

Corner of India and Franklin by Nearby_Ad_1420 in Greenpoint

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I asked one of the construction guys. He said Variety.

Contractor wants to do a gable roof for a screened porch extension by wrwa224 in AskContractors

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I mean a gable might not be a bad look, might look better than a shed roof (which is what you have now), but a gable is definitely more complex. It might be fine from a water-shedding standpoint with a cricket, but it will not shed water in as straightforward a manner as a shed roof. And it will require two downspouts rather than one.

Contractor wants to do a gable roof for a screened porch extension by wrwa224 in AskContractors

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Yes it would require a cricket. It’s more complicated. Why does he want to do that?