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Great pics, some really beautiful stuff! What style are the more romantic looking residential buildings/houses influenced by? Specific immigrant influence, such as German? Or was it just the style of the time?

Those are some of the best shots of Pittsburgh I've ever seen. Great job. You make the city look absolutely beautiful.

Awesome where is Mellon Arena or whatever it is called nowadays.

I absolutely love the views from PNC park. I think its one of the best looking parks in all of baseball, and thats coming from a guy who goes to Camden Yards all the time.

Some really lovely architecture here didnt realize there were so many old buildings in Pittsburgh. Far prettier than Miami, or Houston or Dallas. Some of the new buildings however are nasty, the one with a pyramid cut in2 4 and then a pole coming out of the middle is just horrid, even that large black box is nicer than that one

That has to be hands-down the best view from a baseball stadium that there has ever been. Views like that make you wonder why they built Yankee Stadium to face the Bronx rather than Manhattan...

I love Pittsburgh. It is so visual. Not just beautiful buildings, but the way they are laid out.

Why do people live in the suburbs or the suburb like cities????????

well alot of them work outside the main downtown area... so it makes it a lot easier to avoid tunnels and the like by living outside

I absolutely love the views from PNC park. I think its one of the best looking parks in all of baseball, and thats coming from a guy who goes to Camden Yards all the time.

DITTO. :)
PNC view is A-W-E-S-O-M-E! :eek2: :runaway:

you know, its possible that Pittsburgh will go below 300,000 and have a massive skyline like this...IMO the city should re-evaluate its tax system and try to either get more business in the city or...start doing a shit load of loft conversions downtown to get some people in the city again.

I dunno if Pittsburgh ever went over 700,000, I know it was in the 600,000's for a while...like Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit...these cities need to get their acts together ASAP.

agreed. Such an awesome city deserves more people in it. I'd hate to look at the downtown area there one day and see tumbleweeds blowing all over the place. :D

Great pics.

The tower with the pointed top and spear is Fifth Avenue Place, built in the late 80s. It is a rather sharp building (no pun intended) and just seeing the top like that, doesn't do it justice, but in perspective of the skyline in general, it fits well. it was intended to be taller, but zoning in that part of downtown wouldn't allow it.

The Tallest - USX Tower, was made to reflect it's company, U.S. Steel (by showcasing steel in the design), as Alcoa's original headquarters downtown had an aluminum exterior and PPG's glass design.

Many older buildings are very gothic and PPG's modern gothic tower is an extension of that look.

I dunno if Pittsburgh ever went over 700,000, I know it was in the 600,000's for a while...like Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit...these cities need to get their acts together ASAP.

The city peaked in the upper 600s in the 1950 census I think. Allegheny county where the city sits has double that - if they city could have annexed land over the years, most of the 1.2 million in Allegheny county would be (and should) be Pittsburgh city limits. The metro has 2.4 million.

You are right though, these cities need to do better. Pittsburgh has turned the corner in many regards, but despite many positive things, at the end of the day, the population trend hasn't reversed. it's much better than in the 80s, but the loss was such a blow, that the transformation is taking a lot of time.

Pittsburgh and Western NY have a lot of offer and they need to sell it better.

I don't believe that the Pittsburgh-Allegheny merger would do any good because of all the services that you would have to provide to such communites like McKeesport, Monroeville, Mount Lebanon, and the like (police, fire, EMS, schools, etc) it's also not going to stop the population loss as well. Other cities like Columbus, Jacksonville, Louisville, Indianapolis and Nashville only annexed their land because they wanted to be in the ranking for the biggest American cities, but if you look at their metro areas, the population is not even as twice as much as the city. Pittsburgh needs to re-evaluate it's taxes, as well as promote itself to businesses so there would be jobs available for students coming out of college.

Marvelous city, Pittsburgh. It looks like it has really dreary weather, or was it just for that day? Splendid architecture.