Dominion Tower (Pittsburgh)

Dominion Tower (Pittsburgh)

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building_name = Dominion Tower


caption = The Dominion Tower with its trademark arch can be see towering above Midtown Towers and smaller buildings along Liberty Ave.
location = Liberty Avenue
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constructed = 1987
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use = office building
roof = convert|430|ft|m|0|abbr=on
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floor_count = 32
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management = Dominion Energy Corporation

Dominion Tower is one of the major distinctive and recognizable features of Downtown Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, United States. The tower is named for the Dominion Energy Corporation.

Dominion Tower was completed in 1987 and it has 32 floors. It rises 430 feet or 131 meters above Downtown Pittsburgh. It was influenced heavily by the Art Deco architecture found in other Pittsburgh skyscrapers, like the Gulf Tower, Koppers Building, and Grant Building. Its address is Liberty Avenue.

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


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