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South Side Courtyard House Pool Pavilion & Landscape / studio d'ARC

September 08, 2020

+ 14

Architects: studio d'ARC
Area: 3700 ft²
Year: 2018
Manufacturers: Kohler, Nemetschek, Toto, BLUDOT, McNeel, +2Optimum Steel Windows, York Building Products-2

Tustin Street Adaptive Re-Use / studio d’ARC

July 28, 2020

+ 13

Architects: studio d’ARC
Area: 1900 ft²
Year: 2019
Manufacturers: AutoDesk, Artemide, Ikea, Modernica, Nemetschek, +4Toto, Vola, BLUDOT, Lithonia-4

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh / GBBN

March 01, 2020

+ 13

Architects: GBBN
Area: 9800 ft²
Year: 2016
Manufacturers: Richlite, Shaw, VitrA, Pinnacle Edge
Professionals: WNA Engineering, SciTek Consultants, WBCM

Tree Pittsburgh Headquarters / GBBN

October 10, 2019

+ 15

Architects: GBBN
Area: 5500 ft²
Year: 2018
Professionals: Pashek + MTR, Adele Beaves, Gateway Engineers, Iams Consulting

Carnegie Mellon University Sorrells Library Renovation / GBBN

May 29, 2019

+ 20

Architects: GBBN
Area: 1507 m²
Year: 2017
Manufacturers: Buzzispace, Haworth, TechLighting, Covering Chile, Milliken, +1Plyboo-1
Professionals: GBBN

PNC Legacy Pavilion / GBBN

May 20, 2019

+ 17

Architects: GBBN
Area: 121 m²
Year: 2011
Manufacturers: Bendheim, Pilkington, Kawneer, LiveRoof, ROCKWOOL, +1VM-1
Professionals: Cenkner Engineering Associates

Frick Environmental Center / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

May 22, 2018

+ 9

Architects: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Area: 15570 ft²
Year: 2018
Manufacturers: Black Locust Lumber USA, Marvin, SolarWorld, thyssenkrupp, BRAE, +1Urban Tree-1
Professionals: Barber & Hoffman, H.F. Lenz Company, La Quatra Bonci Associates, PJ Dick

Uber Advanced Technologies Group Center / Assembly Design Studio

January 26, 2017

+ 14

Architects: Assembly Design Studio
Year: 2016
Manufacturers: 3G Lighting, Allied Maker, Apparatus Studio, Bec Brittain, Bruck Lighting, +6Industry West, Matter, Michael Anastassiades, Montauk Sofa, Moore & Giles, Blackened-6

Frick Environmental Center / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

August 15, 2016

+ 21

Architects: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Area: 15570 ft²
Year: 2016
Manufacturers: Ardex, Black Locust Lumber USA, Carlisle SynTec, J+J Flooring Group, Nucor Steel

Carnegie Mellon University's chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) will welcome hundreds of top architecture students and young professionals to Pittsburgh for the largest Quad Conference in the organization's history. The multi-day conference will explore urban renewal through the lenses of technology, sustainability, public interest design, and the arts using Pittsburgh as a powerful example of post-industrial resilience. The conference's keynote speakers include James Ramsey of RAAD Studio and The Lowline, controversial Braddock Mayor and US Senate Candidate John Fetterman, real estate crowdfunding platform founder Eve Picker, architect and artist Dee Briggs, educator John Folan, and many

The Tower at PNC Plaza / Gensler

December 22, 2015

+ 33

Architects: Gensler
Area: 800000 ft²
Year: 2015
Manufacturers: C.R. Laurence, Designtex, Lutron, Vitro®, 9Wood, +63Aquacell, Armstrong Ceilings, Armstrong Flooring, Assa Abloy, Atlas Schindler, BASWA acoustic, Blumcraft, Carnegie, Carvart, Centria, Cricursa, David Trubridge, DuPont, ETC, Firestone Building Products, Haworth, Herman Miller, High Concrete Group, Interface, Josef Gartner, LCN, Mecho Systems, National Guard Products, PPG Paints, Permasteelisa, Poltrona Frau, SONOS, Schlage, Semco, Sixinch, Sloan Valve Company, Solar Innovations, Tandus Centiva, Total Door Systems, Toto, Tuohy, USAI, Von Duprin, WE-EF, WindowMaster, dormakaba, iLight, Acor, Aerco, Anwo, Automated Logic, Baswaphon, Finelight, Galaxy Glass & Stone, Giffin, Hunter Douglas, Ives, Knoll, Nibsa, PJ Dick, PPG IdeaScapes, Price, Security devices, Sippel, Southern Folger, Staticworx, Terra Cota, Wyatt-63
Professionals: Davenport Wind Engineering Group, Christine Davis Consultants, Civil & Environmental Consultants Inc., Heintges, LaQuatra Bonci Associates, +8

New Lower Hill Masterplan / West 8 + BIG + Atelier Ten

November 18, 2015

BIG, West 8 and Atelier Ten have revealed their masterplan design for Pittsburgh's Lower Hill district, just outside the city's downtown region. Located on the former site of Pittsburgh's Civic Arena, which was demolished in 2012 and has since left a significant hole in the city's fabric, the design will bring 1,200 residences and over 1 million square feet of retail space to the area, while reconnecting the wider Hill District with the downtown core by reinstating the city's road grid, overlaid with a series of pedestrian footpaths, public plazas and green spaces.

+ 13

HAC Lab Pittsburgh: Imagining the Modern

June 09, 2015

The city of Pittsburgh encountered and was transformed by modern architecture in an ambitious program of urban revitalization in the 1950s and ’60s. HAC Lab Pittsburgh: Imagining the Modern untangles Pittsburgh’s complicated relationship with modern architecture and urban planning. This experimental presentation at Carnegie Museum of Art’s Heinz Architectural Center includes abundant archival materials from the period, an active architecture studio, and a salon-style discussion space, unearthing layers of history and a range of perspectives.

Exhibition: Sketch to Structure

May 22, 2015

Sketch to Structure unfolds the architectural design process to show how buildings take shape. With sketches, plans, blueprints, renderings, and models from the Heinz Architectural Center collection, this exhibition reveals that architectural design, from initial concept to client presentation, isn’t straightforward.

Design With Empathy: An Exhibit Honoring Maggie's Architecture of Cancer Care

September 12, 2014

Organized by the New York School of Interior Design, and curated for CMOA by Raymund Ryan, curator of architecture, Carnegie Museum of Art is hosting a new exhibit: Maggie's Centres: A Blueprint for Cancer Care. Opening September 13, the exhibit showcases the extraordinary Maggie's Centres, works of integrated architecture designed to address essential human needs and the everyday challenges of cancer patients undergoing treatment. The work of Frank Gehry, Piers Gough, Steven Holl, Rem Koolhaas, and Richard Rogers have been selected to be included in the exhibition, and provide insight into how some of the most influential architects of our age have sought to positively alter the look, and more significantly, the feel, of healthcare facilities.

$David Page, Page\Page Architects - Maggie's Highlands, 2005; Landscape - Charles Jencks. Image Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art$ + 12

AD Classics: PPG Place / John Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson

February 28, 2014

The design of PPG Place, by Philip Johnson and John Burgee, melds the notion of the modern corporate tower with a neo-gothic monument. Clad in almost a million square feet of glass manufactured by the anchor tenant PPG industries, the architects ingeniously rethought accepted practices in curtain wall design to create "the crown jewel in Pittsburgh's skyline." (1) The 1.57 million square foot complex was one in a series of high profile corporate projects completed during Johnson's controversial foray into postmodernism.

+ 33

Eliciting Environments | Actuating Response

January 30, 2014

Current computational, sensing and fabrication technologies provide new opportunities for architects and designers to embed intelligence and responsive behavior directly into architectural matter. Such design tactics not only elicit new sensibilities and socio-aesthetic desires, but also instrumentalize new understandings of hierarchies, networks and organization of building systems controls. Responsive technologies play a critical role in advancing the evolving relationships between humans, constructed environments, administrative controls and natural systems. Systems that mitigate human-machine-environment interaction are evolving to encompass more complex methods of collecting and managing data that can produce subtle differences in feedback and response.