July 30, 2011 02:41:16 PM
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Peter
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PPG Place
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Pittsburghers adore it but I think it's a tragic collision of gothic design and plate glass. PPG Industries was the old Pittsburgh Plate Glass company. It is as if the architect insisted on gothic and PPG insisted on plate glass. Compromise may be a beautiful thing it politics and marriage but it make for awful architecture
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What I loved most on my visit to Pittsburgh was how the buildings downtown represent the materials that the city creates. There were buildings made of steel, aluminum, ceramic, and that crazy Oz-like cathedral of plate glass. I thought they were a great statement about a city based on manufacturing.
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