Sub-zero temperatures have formed patches of ice in the Monongahela.
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Ice in the Monongahela
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Three Gateway Center
The modernist ideal: towers in a park. It works here better than it works almost anywhere else it has been tried. The architects, incidentally, were the firm of Eggers & Higgins, who were the successors to John Russell Pope.
Old Pa Pitt decided to make this picture look as much as possible like an architect’s rendering. He was trying out the LightZone photo software, which will take some getting used to. For correcting lens distortion, he used the GIMP.
Camera: Kodak EasyShare Z1485 IS.
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Downtown from the North Shore
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Downtown on a December Afternoon
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Downtown at Night
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Skyline from the West End Overlook
Elliott is a forgotten city neighborhood in western Pittsburgh, the most forgotten section of the city. But in the West End Overlook, it does have the best viewing post for straight-on pictures of the Point.
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Gulf Tower from Frank Curto Park
The Gulf Tower, with the Koppers Tower (left) and partly completed Tower at PNC Plaza (right). As time goes on, every skyscraper that used to be a “building” changes its name to “tower.”
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The Tower at PNC Plaza, August, 2014
The skeleton is in place and the sides are filling in.
This picture is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, so no permission is needed to use it for any purpose whatsoever.
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Sunset from Schenley Park
Storm clouds passing over the city gave us rain and these beautiful views.
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Grant Building
KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA Henry Hornbostel’s only real skyscraper was briefly the tallest thing in Pittsburgh when it opened in 1929, before being surpassed two years later by the Gulf Building. It’s famous for the air beacon on top—red until recently, but now green to match the logo of the Huntington Bank—that flashes “Pittsburgh” all night in Morse Code. Behind and to the left, the building with three enormous arches is Hornbostel’s City-County Building.
