Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., National Supply Co., Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Peoples Natural Gas Co. Eventually ten buildings will sprawl over Gateway in a parklike setting of shaded walks, lawns, fountains...
...Author Charles Dickens visited Pittsburgh, held his ears and called the town "hell with the lid lifted." Over a century later. Author John Gunther passed through, held his nose and described it (in Inside U.S.A.) as "one of the most shockingly ugly and filthy cities in the world." Last week much-abused Pittsburghers looked around, held their breath, and i) heard plans for a null $12 million skyscraper for their bustling Gateway Center; 2) watched the barricades go up for a 17-story. $7,000.000, metal-sheathed monolith for Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co.; 3) got the designs...
Three big projects in one week were quite a feat even for Pittsburgh, where, in the past decade, 50 major downtown buildings have sprung up (cost: $130 million) and 4,000 off-street parking spaces have been created. In the Golden Tri angle business district, where no new office building had been put up between 1930 and 1945, one-fourth of the area has been rebuilt in ten years, raising assessed property value by 25%. Now Pittsburgh is opening the second round of its rebirth. All told, $150 million worth of new buildings are under construction or due to start...
...Lower Hill slums, will be a $14 million, 14,000-seat civic auditorium with a fold-back dome to let the sky in for open-air spectacles. Growing around it will be a colony of civic, cultural and middle-income apartment buildings. Toward the outskirts the University of Pittsburgh will complete two new schools for medicine and public-health services in 1957 (cost: $20 million...
...rented by Rockefeller Center, Inc. to other occupants, e.g., American Cyanamid Co.. Shell Oil Co., McCann-Erickson, Inc., Esso Standard Oil Co. The plans of Manhattan Architects Wallace K. Harrison and Max Abramovitz (whose firm helped design Rockefeller Center, the United Nations building and many of the new Pittsburgh skyscrapers) call for a massive rectangular tower rising from two setbacks at the third and eighth floors, with the main entrance through a promenade with gardens and fountain pools...