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The Westinghouse Air Brake Company General Office Building (known locally as the Castle [3] or Library Hall [4]) in Wilmerding, Pennsylvania is a building from 1890. It was listed on the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation in 1975, [5] National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1]
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called the IBM Building "one of the first real changes from conventional design in half a century of multi-story building." [15] Detail of the building exterior. The building was also one of the first to utilize a diagrid (diagonal grid) structure, which requires less steel than a conventional frame. [16]
Robert Sands (September 15, 1943 –) is an accomplished designer, painter and director from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied painting and design at the Ivy School of Professional Art [1] under Abe Weiner, Marie Kelly, Roy Hunter, and Everett Sturgeon. Sands is the owner and founder of Terminal Graphics, a Pittsburgh-based design firm ...
Mount Washington is a neighborhood in the southern region of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It has a Zip Code of 15211 and has representation on Pittsburgh City Council by both the council members for District 3 (Central South Neighborhoods) and District 2 (West Neighborhoods).
Inventionland officially opened in 2006, having taken 18 months from design to construction. [3] The interior renovation took one year and cost $5 million. [4] Within Inventionland's 61,000 square-foot design facility are 16 themed sets, named and designed to reflect the new-product invention activity within. Some of the sets include:
It rises 330 feet (101 m) above Downtown Pittsburgh. Its address is 437 Grant Street, and is also accessible from Forbes and Fifth Avenues. The building's architect was Daniel H. Burnham of D.H. Burnham & Company, Chicago. [4] Of the eleven executed designs for Pittsburgh by D.H. Burnham & Company, the Frick Building is one of only seven ...
Chatham Village is a community within the larger Mount Washington neighborhood of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and an internationally acclaimed model of community design. It is roughly bounded by Virginia Avenue, Bigham Street, Woodruff Street, Saw Mill Run Boulevard, and Olympia Road, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in ...
Hunt Armory (also known as Pittsburgh Armory) is a former armory located at 324 Emerson Street in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was designed by Pittsburgh architects W.G. Wilkins Co. Announced on August 29, 1909 and budgeted at $450,000 ($15.3 million in present-day terms) it was completed by 1916.