Palaces for the People: The Oyster Bar in Grand Central Terminal, New York, NY.

Dr. John Ochsendorf discusses the Guastavino Company's design for the tile arches and vaulted ceilings of the legendary Oyster Bar and Whispering Gallery at New York City's Grand Central Terminal.
Dr. John Ochsendorf, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of Guastavino Vaulting: The Art of Structural Tile (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010), discusses the unique and revolutionary craftsmanship and design that made Rafeal Guastavino Sr. one of the most influential architectural craftsman of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The exhibition "Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America's Great Public Spaces" is now on view at the National Building Museum through January 20, 2014.
www.nbm.org/exhibitions-collec...

[@jbwentworthe6082]

The Oyster Bar is one of those places inextricably within the hearts of those who travelled through G.C on their daiiy treks to and from work, theatre, dinners in town and life in the "City". The very definitive wellspring of the emotion we know as "homesick" when you have gone away.

[@rr7firefly]

I had my very first martini at the Oyster Bar back in 2004. Had no idea it was such an icon in New York City history.

[@urbanviii5103]

I love that place. I have eaten there at least 100 times in my life.

[@akie64]

Great clip, I'm vegetarian but dying to dine here in august during family visit to NYC!