What's your least favorite building in the city? (Penn, Alexandria: condo, tenant)

[szug-bot]

i'm glad others feel that way about the USS Tower.

It is strong, powerful, grand, and a handsome building. I was always hoping that in like other big, bustling cities where their corporate skyscrapers are almost miniature cities, something like that would happen in the USX and at Oxford Centre....but for the life of me i do not understand how there is no restaurant at the top of the USX - Top of the Triangle was...awesome.

i dont remember the food as much as the whole experience/views.

[screechingweasel]

The science center looks pretty dated at this point.

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by PghYinzer

If I had to choose my least favorite building in Pgh, the Sheraton at Station Square comes to mind.

Ew. That's another hemorrhoid.

[BUILD PENN SQUARE]

Originally Posted by zalewskimm

Worked in USX for a few years and just being in there makes me nervous. The big long escalator from ground level to the upper lobby elevators. The security army you have to get through to visit an office. Not sure if the day care is still in the basement but I always felt sad for those little tikes, spending all day in a windowless day care. Then the Top of the Triangle Restaurant up 65+ floors?? The eerie parking garage world underneath. The building just raises my blood pressure.

i wonder how many people are working in USX now compared to february - and what sort of elevator passenger restrictions they've implemented

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Originally Posted by szug-bot

Top of the Triangle was...awesome.

agreed - that was pittsburgh's golden era in my 50+ year lifetime, and the allegheny club at three rivers

[szug-bot]

Originally Posted by BUILD PENN SQUARE

agreed - that was pittsburgh's golden era in my 50+ year lifetime, and the allegheny club at three rivers

oh, apologies - for various reasons and from context, i really thought you were a kid, and asked you in another thread.


("kid" = 20s)

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Originally Posted by szug-bot

oh, apologies - for various reasons and from context, i really thought you were a kid, and asked you in another thread.("kid" = 20s)

no worries - glad i'm not a kid because i got to enjoy life before "social distancing" and masks, and got to enjoy the civic arena, pitt stadium, the syria mosque, the stanley and three rivers stadium when pittsburgh was really cool - even got to see the CLASH and SANTANA play (on separate occasions) in the gymnasium at CMU back when tech fair was in the parking lot where the parking garage is now

[Charley Barker]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

Ew. That's another hemorrhoid.

Agreed. I like the USX/UPMC tower up close and inside (the lobby, for example), but from a distance, in relation to the other buildings in the skyline, it looks like something dark and foreboding that the Galactic Empire commissioned.

[szug-bot]

Originally Posted by BUILD PENN SQUARE

no worries - glad i'm not a kid because i got to enjoy life before "social distancing" and masks, and got to enjoy the civic arena, pitt stadium, the syria mosque, the stanley and three rivers stadium when pittsburgh was really cool - even got to see the CLASH and SANTANA play (on separate occasions) in the gymnasium at CMU back when tech fair was in the parking lot where the parking garage is now

a cousin had a wedding reception in the lower (lowest?) floor of the Mosque like 30 years ago. It was a finished space, of course, and very nice. I remember a sliding glass door on the side OPPOSITE Bigelow Boulevard that led to a quiet, airy space for a minute or two away from the fracas. The Mosque was a beatiful space, in a beautiful building.

I'd say Pittsburgh was cool from 2010 to about 2015 - there was a lot of local band activity, with several actually putting out very good stuff. The Deutschtown Music Festival was (and will be again) just a great event. We had some national events of notoriety. The Penguins would draw so many visitors from out of town. I lived in the Hill, then Downtown - and Downtown was often VERY BUSY like I never had seen it in my youth.

what is/was "Tech Fair" at CMU?

Is Pittsburgh "cool" now (pandemic notwithstanding?) Hmmm....i am a decade older, and so less interested in club performances. forget metal - i am scared of getting hurt

the arts don't hadn't been as vibrant, and visible, but again, it could be because i dont seek it out/exposed to it.

the downtown crowds from all places across North American, like they were some time ago, though? gone.

edit: bike accessibility? very cool, and appreciated. if only some of the jagoffs would learn to behave and not zip by pedestrians and scare the hell out of them.

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Originally Posted by szug-bot

what is/was "Tech Fair" at CMU?

they call it CARNIVAL now - it's "three days of amusement park rides, adventures in booths, unhealthy snacks, and buggy races"

https://www.springcarnival.org/