Taylor-Wilson Manufacturing Company, 500 Thompson Ave Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA
This building is an early example of a concrete "daylight factory," a building type that revolutionized industrial architectural design at the turn-of-the-last-century. Engineer Robert A. Cummings followed Ernest L. Ransome`s patented concrete construction system, which allowed columns to intersect with floor slabs, countering structural forces through a framework rather than through solid masses of load-bearing walls.
Taylor-Wilson Manufacturing Company, 500 Thompson Ave Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA
This building is an early example of a concrete "daylight factory," a building type that revolutionized industrial architectural design at the turn-of-the-last-century. Engineer Robert A. Cummings followed Ernest L. Ransome`s patented concrete construction system, which allowed columns to intersect with floor slabs, countering structural forces through a framework rather than through solid masses of load-bearing walls.
Posted Date
Sep 27, 2021
Source Name
Library of Congress
