ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/481077/ad-classics-ppg-place-john-burgee-architects-with-philip-johnson Fri, 28 Feb 2014 04:00:00 +0000 Michelle Miller https://www.archdaily.com/481077/ad-classics-ppg-place-john-burgee-architects-with-philip-johnson 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.

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