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Gateway Center Construction

1951

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Gateway Center Construction
  • Title
  • Gateway Center Construction
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B006.F20.I03
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B006.F20.I03
  • Description
  • After the complex of industrial buildings in the area was cleared, Equitable Life Assurance Society began construction of Gateway Center in the early 1950s. This marked the beginning of Pittsburgh’s Renaissance. The One, Two, and Three Gateway Buildings (pictured here still under construction) were designed by architects Otto Eggers and Daniel Higgins, with Irwin Clavan. The design for the first Gateway buildings and the park setting was created in 1922 by the noted Swiss architect Charles Edouard Jeanneret, or known as Le Corbusier. Pittsburgh corporations signed leases at Gateway Center without even looking at a photograph of the buildings they were promising to move into. The Gateway Center buildings were completed around 1952.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Gateway Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Steel framing (Building)--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Urban renewal--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Buildings--Design and construction--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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