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Cathedral of Learning at Night
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Central Oakland
The cluttered landscape of the central Oakland medical-intellectual district.
Something is always under construction.
Rowhouses huddle in the shadow of the university.
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Cathedral of Learning
We have seen this view more than once before, but it is one of the best views of the building, and it is worth seeing in different lights. Here the patterns of light and shade from the drifting clouds made an especially pleasing picture.
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Cathedral of Learning from Across Schenley Plaza
One of the most remarkable things about the Cathedral of Learning is that it is an isolated skyscraper. There are very few places in the world where a skyscraper can be examined by itself, and few skyscrapers so much worth examining as this, which Father Pitt has often declared the only convincing application of Gothic style to the skyscraper form.
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Looking Up at the Cathedral of Learning
With part of the Stephen Foster Memorial in front.
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Cathedral of Learning Through the Trees
The Cathedral of Learning seen through the trees in front of the Schenley Plaza side of the Carnegie Institute building.
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Panther Fountain at the Cathedral of Learning
This fountain sits below the southwest entrance to the tower, across from the William Pitt Student Union.
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Looking Down Forbes Avenue
The lively and varied streetscape of Forbes Avenue in Oakland, looking toward the Cathedral of Learning.
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Cathedral of Learning in the Rain
It started to rain while Father Pitt was out for a walk today, which gave us this atmospheric picture of the Cathedral of Learning looming through the mist like a heavenly palace behind the pleasant houses of Schenley Farms. This is why old Pa Pitt’s cameras live in a waterproof bag. Father Pitt himself is not waterproof, but he does dry fairly quickly.
If you like black and white and all the greys in between, you might enjoy Father Pitt’s Monochrome World, a very simple site that collects his favorite black-and-white pictures from Pittsburgh and elsewhere.
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Cathedral of Learning on a Winter Morning