Americas Great Public Spaces : Guastavino Tile Vaulted Ceilings

Go to any major city and you will probably be able to find their work today.  From Carnegie Hall to Grand Central, many of America's great public spaces have beautiful and grand tile vaulted ceilings and most of those ceilings were constructed and engineered by the Guastavino Company. Through the turn of the Twentieth Century America's cities of wood were burning.  This sparked the Building Boom that lasted through the turn of the century and towards the Great Depression.  During the nations rebuilding surge, the Guastavino Company had 12 offices across the nation and had over a 100 buildings in production at any one time.  The magnitude of construction at anytime would be impressive yet during the early 1900's to have that scale is more remarkable.  Read more here.

via NPR