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development of offices like those on Wood Street, western Grant Street, and Gateway Center. Advances in structural technology drove the architecture in the high rises built in the last couple
because they weren’t pushing air around the way we are now,” Beasley says. “Those buildings were relying on the windows as the source of fresh air. No longer is that feasible with the modern energy code.”
A survey of Pittsburgh’s downtown office buildings reveals the breadth of architecture that developed over the course of the 20th century. After World War II, modern architecture drove
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