This TV studio in Chicago had one problem: it was located in the same building as printing presses for the Chicago Tribune. Vibration from the rumbling presses would compromise TV production. Solution: float the studio on air. Rubber bags, each 14 x 30 inches, were inflated and placed under the flooring. The bags elevated the… Continue reading Cutaway of TV Studio Floating on Air, 1950
Category: Commercial Buildings
Cutaway drawings of stores, hotels, factories, plants, etc.
Office Ventilation Cutaway, ca 1940s
One of the great things about the old Fortune magazine was how it often treated extremely mundane subjects with great wonder and awe. Not only would they profile the high-level anticts of John D. Rockefeller, William Randolph Hearst, and Henry Ford, but they would take things down to the opposite end of the spectrum and… Continue reading Office Ventilation Cutaway, ca 1940s
Cutaway Hotel Video
What do you do with a cutaway hotel? I haven’t the faintest idea. I tossed together some amateur motion-tracking shots and a soundtrack to come up with this.
Hotel Cutaway Drawing, 1947
This great cutaway originally comes from a July 5, 1947 Saturday Evening Post ad for Armstrong’s Industrial Insulation. For an extra-sized view, click here and then click a second time on the magnifying glass. The ad says, in part: When you look behind the scenes, a modern hotel is an astounding place. Few guests appreciate… Continue reading Hotel Cutaway Drawing, 1947