Downtown Pittsburgh is laid out in two colliding grids, and Liberty Avenue is where they collide. On the right-hand side of Liberty Avenue downtown (as we look at it here), the streets form baffling acute and obtuse angles that force buildings into all sorts of curious shapes. This is the view eastward from Sixth Street.
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[…] irregular pentagon, one of the many buildings forced into odd shapes by the colliding grids along Liberty Avenue. Except for the shape, it’s a fairly standard beaux-arts tower, with base, shaft, and cap, […]
[…] irregular pentagon, one of the many buildings forced into odd shapes by the colliding grids along Liberty Avenue. Except for the shape, it’s a fairly standard beaux-arts tower, with base, shaft, and cap, and […]