- Highmark Place
Infobox Skyscraper
building_name = Highmark Place
caption = View of Highmark Place from PNC park, showing the new branding.
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constructed = 1988
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use = Office
roof = convert|616|ft|m|0|abbr=on
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floor_count = 31
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architect =Stubbins Associates
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management =Highmark Place (officially known as Fifth Avenue Place) is a skyscraper in
Pittsburgh ,Pennsylvania .United States . The tower is named for theHighmark Corporation.The building was completed in
1988 and it has 31 floors. Located at the corner of Liberty Avenue and Fifth Avenue, it rises 616 feet (188 meters) aboveDowntown Pittsburgh . The structure is made up of a unique granite frame for roughly the first 450 feet, then collapses inward in a pyramidal shape for another 124 foot tall roof structure. The roof utilizes four prisms clad in granite and encloses a penthouse area that stores the mechanics for the building as well as the cooling towers. Before Highmark's branding of the top of the tower, there were video screens at the base of the decorative summit of the building.Protruding from the top of the skyscraper is a 178-foot tall mast manufactured by Meyer Industry of Minnesota. Despite its rounded appearance, the 13-story steel structure is actually 12-sided and measures four feet in diameter. Due to high winds, the mast allows for up to three feet of sway. The height at the top of the mast represents the intended height for the building when it was in development. However, the city decided that that height would not fit in well with the skyline, so the height of the main structure was restricted to what it is today.
References
*cite book | author=Toker, Franklin | title=Buildings of Pittsburgh | location=Pittsburgh | publisher=Chicago: Society of Architectural Historians; Santa Fe: Center for American Places ; Charlottesville: In association with the University of Virginia Press | year=2007 | id=ISBN 0-8139-2650-5
External links
* [http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=121964 Emporis]
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