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Steel City Research Paper

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Pittsburgh the “Steel City”, “City of Bridges”, and the “City of Champions” was once considered to be disturbingly polluted. It is now more environmentally friendly. Green buildings, less water pollution, and all the other things that make Pittsburgh better. The thesis statement goes here. Pittsburgh geography created a strange city layout. George Woods and Thomas Vickroy created the layout of the Golden Triangle 1784. The design was called the Woods-Vickroy double-grid plan. The Great of 1854 destroyed roughly 1,000 buildings and one-third of the Golden Triangle. Pittsburgh is called the City of Bridges because it has 446 of them. The Smithfield Street Bridge is the oldest extant bridges. It was built from 1881 to 1883. It was not the first bridge to built in that spot. The first bridge to built there was Pittsburgh first bridge, a wooden bridge designed by Lewis Wernwag. That bridge was destroyed in the Great Fire. John Roebling’s suspension bridge was built next. The bridge was destroyed a year later due to stability. Then there are the “Three Sisters” bridges. Vernon Covell and his group of engineers plus an architect by the name Stanley Roush designed and built the …show more content…

Phipps Conservatory, named after Henry Phipps, is home to a variety of different plant and tree species. The conservatory was built in 1893 by Lord and Burnham and then in 2005 IKM Architects added the welcome center. The building features a room that is sixty-five feet height, sixty feet wide and 450 feet long. It also has an aquatic garden, two courtyards, and thirteen display gardens. The National Aviary was one of three buildings to be built in West Park. All three buildings were built on the same spot. The aviary has had many additions since being built in 1952. At first it was just a rectangular glass block with a Gothic styled roof. In 1969 a glass block was added to the rectangle. Then 1997 a glass dome was

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