Outdoor Cable Ties: A Closer Look at York’s Old Brick Walls

Along Newgate in York, England, you can see cables running across the old brick walls. Several black cables are bundled with nylon cable ties and run along the mortar joints, changing direction at wall corners, windows and security cameras. Some of the ties have dust and cobwebs around them, while others look fairly new. For […]
Outdoor Cable Ties: Insights from Yonghe Temple

If you walk through Yonghe Temple (Lama Temple) in Beijing, China — a 300-year-old imperial monastery — you’ll notice something interesting among the ancient wooden beams and traditional courtyards: a few outdoor cable ties…