Tag Archives: Pennsylvania
20170819. The brutalist expressionist facade of circular ramps at Pittsburgh’s Smithfield-Liberty Garage.
20170812. Pittsburgh’s Sixth and Penn parking garage is a modernist gem designed by architect Ryan Avedissian who was demoted due to his obsession with abstraction.
20160704. The Cathedral of Learning and the Heinz Memorial Chapel, aligned companions at the University of Pittsburgh.
20160625. Follow the seam into Pittsburgh’s Point State Park..
20160421. The spectacular skylight and ceiling of the remarkable rotunda at Pittsburgh Union Station, now the Pennsylvanian residences.
20160412. Under Pittsburgh’s Interstate 579, a younger and cleaner elevated expressway than Toronto’s Gardiner.
20160409. The Portal Bridge to Pittsburgh’s Point State Park.
20160408. A pyramidal view of Pittsburgh’s United Steelworkers Building. Curtis & Davis, 1963.
The exterior diamond lattice of steel provides form and function. With such a load-bearing exoskeleton and a solid central core, no interior columns are needed providing large open interior spaces.
20160405. Crossing Pittsburgh’s Monongahela River on a Port Authority of Allegheny County LRV.
20160402. The Three Sisters of Pittsburgh.
These three self-anchored suspension bridges span the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh. From front to back they are the Roberto Clemente Bridge, the Andy Warhol Bridge and the Rachel Carson Bridge.
Built from 1924 to 1928, they are the only trio of nearly identical bridges, as well as the first self-anchored suspension spans, built in the United States.
20160329. Pittsburgh’s Postmodern Glass Gothic PPG Place.
20160327. Looking up Pittsburgh’s 1959-built Wyndham Grand Hotel, an example of the city’s marvelous mid-century modernism.
