Pittsburgh West End Bridge

“This is the only city in America with an entrance. You slide and slither into most downtowns, passing through gradual layers of ever-more-intensely built-up sprawl, and you do not so much enter the center as realize after you are there that it is all around you. Not Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is entered with glory and drama.”
-Paul Goldberger New York Times 1988

Credit: Competition entry in collaboration with Shift Design Studio.