A smokestack reaches for the sky from the Carnegie Institute heating plant. The picture is teeming with metaphorical possibilities, none of which will be elaborated here.
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Aspiration
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Spring at Phipps
The Spring Flower Show at Phipps Conservatory had a whimsically classical theme: Praxiteles by way of Salvador Dali.
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Imposingly Ionic
The columns of the Mellon Institute building in Oakland are supposedly the largest monolithic columns in the world. Anyone who spends time in Pittsburgh will notice a kind of local obsession with having the largest this or that in the world. -
Christmas in the Broderie
The Broderie at Phipps Conservatory decorated for Christmas. -
Ducks in the Sunken Garden
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Romanesque in Phipps
A Romanesque capital in Phipps Conservatory, at the back of the palm house.
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More Glass at Phipps
More of Dale Chihuly‘s glass whimsies at Phipps Conservatory. In the Tropical Forest, a few of the sculptures are filled with neon or argon and lit up like some sort of crazy radioactive dodder.
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Architecture in Miniature
A Thai “spirit house” in the Thai Tropical Forest, Phipps Conservatory. The spirits live better than the people in some parts of Thailand, but fortunately they can fit into very small spaces.
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A Leafy Suburb in the City
The Cathedral of Learning seen from Schenley Farms, a century-old suburb surrounded by the monuments and institutions of Oakland.
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1892
The Art Nouveau date stone in Phipps Conservatory, in the rear of the palm house.
