Built in 1905, this Beaux Arts-style building was designed by MacClure and Spahr, and is known as the Diamond Building. The building features a buff brick exterior with a stone base, one-over-one double-hung windows, a footprint that follows the bend in the streets that the building faces, a copper cornice with modillions, festoons, and acroterions, and a recessed entrance door behind an arched opening. The building today is one of many historic skyscrapers that can be found throughout Downtown Pittsburgh.‹›
PPG Place

Philip Johnson

Exterior · Pittsburgh, United States · 1984

Photo: w_lemay · 2023-06-18 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 2828×3771

Built in 1905, this Beaux Arts-style building was designed by MacClure and Spahr, and is known as the Diamond Building. The building features a buff brick exterior with a stone base, one-over-one double-hung windows, a footprint that follows the bend in the streets that the building faces, a copper cornice with modillions, festoons, and acroterions, and a recessed entrance door behind an arched opening. The building today is one of many historic skyscrapers that can be found throughout Downtown Pittsburgh.

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