Anyone who’s ever been to New York has walked under scaffolding. It’s so common and unremarkable that it’s easy to miss how much of a dark eyesore they are. They haven’t been redesigned since the ...

Urban Umbrella plans to install over a dozen more of its safer sidewalk bridges in the Madison Avenue BID this Spring NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Urban Umbrella, New York City’s first scaffolding ...

In normal times, New York’s omnipresent walls of scaffolding are meant to keep people safe from crumbling facades. Now, one city scaffolding firm is using its product to keep people safe from COVID-19 ...

The Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) is literally angling for a new scaffolding design that lets in more light on the street below. The firms were chosen as part of the “Get Sheds Down” ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Urban Umbrella, New York City’s first scaffolding design alternative, announced today it has partnered with Madison Avenue Business Improvement District (BID), as part of ...

Scaffolding, or sidewalk sheds if you want to get technical, is as much a part New York’s fabric as flooded subways or breakfast bagels. But does it have to be so ugly and ubiquitous? In Italo Calvino ...