The Center for Sustainable Landscapes is housed in “one of earth’s greenest buildings.” It’s worth taking a tour to see the various clever ways the building makes use of renewable energy and resources.
Camera: Kodak EasyShare Z1485 IS.
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Phipps Hall of Botany
The Hall of Botany is a work of Rutan & Russell in an unusual baroque style.1
Cameras: above, Kodak EasyShare Z1485 IS; below, Olympus E-20n.
- In an earlier version of this article, we had attributed the Hall of Botany to Alden & Harlow, following online references. However, a newspaper article from December 17, 1900, just before the work began, tells us, “The architects of the building are Messrs. Rutan & Russell.” “Germ Idea of Henry Phipps School of Botany Belongs to Miss Annie M. Deens, Teacher of Biology,” Pittsburgh Daily Post, December 17, 1900, p. 5, where a rendering and plan of the building is printed. ↩︎
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King Edward Apartments, Oakland
This is not the largest but one of the most splendid apartment buildings in the North Oakland apartment district. It is a curious trapezoidal shape, crammed into a lot that is not quite rectangular and using up every inch of it.
There are some stitching errors in this very large composite photograph, and old Pa Pitt is too lazy to fix them.
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Robert Burns by J. Massey Rhind
This is one of several Robert Burns statues that J. Massey Rhind made for various cities in the United States. Pittsburgh’s was sponsored by Andrew Carnegie and other prominent Pittsburghers of Scots ancestry.
Cameras: above, Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3; below, Olympus E-20n.
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Entrance to Phipps Conservatory
Above, looking up into the dome. Below, exterior and interior views of the lobby.
Cameras: above, Canon PowerShot A590 IS (hacked); below, Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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St. Bernard Church and School, Mount Lebanon
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