The steel mesh arrived last week. Beside reinforcing the concrete, these are used to hold the tubes for the radiant heat system which we're laying...

We found this sketch hanging on the wall when we first walked through the building in 2007. I'm not sure how old it is or who made it. What I am sure...

Ahh that ever elusive light at the end of the tunnel! We are far from the end but there are moments when I can feel the momentum of all these...

The crew has been power washing 100 years of grit, dust and history off the ceilings and beams of the future Niche Modern glass studio. It's a huge...

On the ground, Hal's crew preps for the cutting and digging of the trenches but high up above the billowing sheets of plastic another crew is...

Here at Niche Modern we're literally climbing into the trenches each day as we make major progress on the new glass studio. Today the crew made some...

A few words about Hal, our master contractor: he "owns" the concrete pylon to the right of the entrance at Dunkin' Donuts in Hyde Park, NY because he...