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.
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