Father Pitt

Tag: Architecture

  • Tower at PNC Plaza in Afternoon Sun

  • Two Gateway Center in Late-Afternoon Sun

    Two Gateway Center

  • Chatham Center

    This picture from five years ago (but old Pa Pitt just dug it out of his archive, where it lay forgotten) shows the unobstructed view of Chatham Center from the Middle Hill. Chatham One is the building with the name at the top; the square tower to the left of it is Two Chatham Center.

  • Obelisk at PPG Place on a Summer Morning

    The obelisk rests on four spheres like cannonballs; Peter Leo used to call it the Tomb of the Unknown Bowler.

  • Entrance to the Frick Building

    The Frick Building was designed by Daniel Burnham to convey one message, and with its austere classical dignity it succeeds perfectly. The message was “Henry Frick is more important than Andrew Carnegie.” The Frick Building dwarfed the Carnegie Building next door, which had once been the tallest in the city; by the time Frick had surrounded Carnegie’s building with taller buildings, the Carnegie Building was no longer an attractive place to be, and it was demolished to make way for the Kaufmann’s annex.

  • Reflections Along Liberty Avenue

    EQT Plaza reflected in the K & L Gates Center, and the Keenan Building and the Clark Building reflected in Two PNC Plaza.

    Camera: Samsung Digimax V4.

  • PPG Place Reflected in PPG Place

    The distinctive pinnacles of PPG Place are reflected in more PPG Place across the street.

    Camera: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3

  • Union National Bank Building

    The Union National Bank Building of 1906 is one of the most splendid of the Fourth Avenue bank towers. It was designed by the prolific and tasteful MacClure and Spahr. As “The Carlyle,” it is now a luxury condo tower.

  • The Phipps-McElveen Building

    Phipps-McElveen Building

    Now student housing under the name “Penn Commons.” It was originally built, in 1896, for Henry Phipps, Andrew Carnegie’s close friend and the donor of the Phipps Conservatories for both Pittsburgh and Allegheny (the latter of which, much expanded, is now the National Aviary).

    This is a large composite picture; don’t open the full-size version on a metered connection.

  • Third Avenue

    Looking up Third Avenue from the Stanwix Street end. In the distance we can see the towering striped octagons of One Oxford Centre.