The glass crown of One PPG Place in winter sunlight.
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Top of One PPG Place
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Light from a Winter Sunset
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Chamber of Commerce Building
From The Chamber of Commerce Building, 1917, published just before the building opened. The Chamber of Commerce Building seems to be neglected in Pittsburgh lore; nobody mentions it, and in fact the Skyscraper Page Pittsburgh skyscraper diagram skips right over it, ignoring it completely, though the diagram includes a number of considerably smaller and shorter buildings. Even old Pa Pitt has never featured this building before, mostly because it is difficult to get a picture of the whole building. So here is an illustration of the building when it was new; it has changed very little. It is easier to pick out details with a versatile lens, so here are a few of the interesting decorations. The architects were Edward B. Lee, who moved his office into the building when it was finished, and James P. Piper.
Canon PowerShot SX20 IS.
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Base of the U. S. Steel Tower
Canon PowerShot SX20 IS. The base of the U. S. Steel Tower is where all the drama of the building is concentrated. From a distance, it’s a black slab dominating the skyline, but at the base, the impossibly spindly supports make the building seem to hover like something in a René Magritte painting.
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Top of the CNG Tower
Kodak EasyShare Max Z990. The distinctive arched top of the CNG Tower, now known as EQT Plaza, one of old Pa Pitt’s favorite postmodernist buildings in the city.
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CNG Tower
Kodak EasyShare Max Z990. Now called EQT Plaza, this is one of old Pa Pitt’s favorite Postmodernist buildings from the 1980s “Renaissance II” boom. The architect was William Pederson of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates.
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Four Gateway Center in Two Colors
Fujifilm FinePix HS10 with the Tritanopia filter in G’MIC. Four Gateway Center rendered in old-postcard colors for no particular reason.
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One Mellon Center
Fujifilm FinePix HS10. Or BNY Mellon Center, or whatever it is called now that BNY Mellon is just BNY, seen from across the Mon.
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Ornamental Bronze on the Frick Building
Kodak Easyshare Z990. Ornamental patterns, including a fine Vitruvian scroll (the wave pattern in the middle), over the Fifth Avenue entrance to the Frick Building.
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Entrance to the Jones & Laughlin Headquarters Building
Samsung Digimax V4. MacClure & Spahr designed the headquarters for Jones & Laughlin, which is now the John P. Robin Civic Building. The entrance is lavishly decorated. The angle below shows off two of the most impressive lanterns in the city.
Fujifilm FinePix HS10. More pictures of the Jones & Laughlin Headquarters Building: front of the building, from the southeast, and the construction of the second stage of the building.
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