Posted March 26, 200619 yr This is a thread devoted exclusively to skyline shots of my favorite city... perhaps there's no other skyline that can be photographed so many ways... the dramatic topography and eclectic architecture provide unlimited opportunities... as one of the world's most dinstictive skylines... Pittsburgh exudes power, grace, elegance and romance. Welcome... to Pittsburgh! Pittsburgh's 2nd skyline... Oakland first time using a tripod... ugh... oh well, it still looks cool i'll have to get this shot in the morning some time I *wish* I would've included the child on the swing in this shot... oh well, it was the first time I ever used a camera! All these skyline shots... and I still don't have my favorite skyline perspective in my collection... the daring shot of downtown from the top of the Cathedral of Learning... taken by MayDay
March 26, 200619 yr The name just doesn't fit the place, does it! What a city! Anyway, on a side note, I can remember being totally perplexed two years ago at PNC looking across the river to the black building with the white rectangles. I wanted to go over and check it out, but we booked a room in Mars (PA, not an exaggeration) and never had time. Is it a parking garage? What material is that?
March 27, 200619 yr Great tour, great city! The Smithfield Street Bridge is one of my favorites anywhere. I remember it when only one side carried cars, and the other side had streetcar tracks.
March 27, 200619 yr I like the brutalist black scraper downtown. Also, what is Oakland like? Is that where the universities are?
March 27, 200619 yr I like the brutalist black scraper downtown. Also, what is Oakland like? Is that where the universities are? I assume you're referring to Pittsburgh's tallest... U.S. Steel Tower. It certainly looks "brutal", but it is not an example of the brutalist architectural movement, which is a poured concrete style. It instead features a steel exoskeleton which effectively evokes industry. There are no examples of brutalist skyscraper architecture in Pittsburgh, though there is a large brutalist building "Posvar Hall" in the University of Pittsburgh's campus in Oakland. Oakland is home to most of Pittsburgh's major universities... including Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Mellon and Carlow. It serves as the "university city", civic centre, hyper-active office market, research centre, vibrant and diverse residential neighborhood, has world class health care institutions, several business districts and is one of Pittsburgh's many nightlife destinations. IMO Oakland is one of America's greatest urban neighborhoods. Oakland is east of downtown and its streets are packed densely with an eclectic mixture of late 1800s/early 1900s housing styles (including many rows). Small ethnic grocers and interesting restaurants of all types line the streets. The pulsating energy of student life is made manifest in the bars, coffeeshops, ice cream parlors, student-occupied rowhouses and record shops of the neighborhood. From the grand civic architecture of the universities... to the intimate human-scale of the residential streets... to the grand entrance to one of America's great urban parks... Schenley... Oakland has it all.
March 31, 200619 yr I loved downtown Pittsburgh when I visited last summer, but then I watched George Romero's Day of the Dead and now I get creeped out every time I think of the Golden Triangle.
April 12, 200619 yr Geat Pics!!!.....i wonder if we could get some pictures over in oakland. I have heard a lot of people make connections between Uptown Cincinnati and Oakland....GIve us some PICS!!! :clap:
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