View from Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh is now striving energetically to reinvent itself as a model for the post-industrial city of the twenty-first century.

The Architectural Review | December 1, 2003| | Copyright

The moment visitors to Pittsburgh exit the Liberty Tunnel and access the high-level Liberty Bridge, they enjoy an instant iconic panorama of Downtown and the confluence of Pittsburgh's three defining rivers. Displayed below, between the massive trusses of the double-decker bridge, is a tight array of urban architecture from H. H. Richardson's Allegheny Courthouse and Jail (1884-88) to Harrison & Abramovitz's Alcoa Tower (1953) and--in a comparatively rare moment of Post-Modern posturing--Johnson Burgee's PPG Place (1979-84), that audaciously reinterprets London's Houses of ...

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