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"Pittsburgh Platforms: New Projects in Architecture and Environmental Design"
2003-06-28 until 2003-10-05
Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Pittsburgh Platforms: New Projects in Architecture and Environmental Design, on view at Carnegie Museum of Art's Heinz Architectural Center from June 28-October 5, 2003, looks at 19 projects designed for Pittsburgh and its surroundings and explores how design can re-present the region with its legacy of heavy industry and, more recently, a new economy. These 21st-century endeavors are by Pittsburgh-based or Pittsburgh-trained architects, engineers, landscape designers, and artists.

Most participants in the exhibition are in the early phases of their professional careers. The projects are loosely grouped into five categories: home, work, infrastructure, landscape, and culture. Each project is presented on an individual platform with drawings, photographs, and models, as well as material samples that allow the visitor to appreciate its physical character. studio d'ARC's presentation of their Live Work House II on Pittsburgh's South Side features a panel of the weathering steel used as cladding. D.I.R.T.'s Testing the Waters, a water treatment park in Vintondale, Cambria County, revives a landscape marred by mining yet acknowledges the region's industrial past. "Much like a set of adjacent islands, these platforms form an archipelago of installations through which the visitor is invited to roam and thus assemble impressions of a Pittsburgh emerging now and in the near future," says Raymund Ryan, curator of the Heinz Architectural Center and organizer of the exhibition. "They are intended as both physical platforms and as platforms for the introduction, display, and dispersal of visionary ideas." Other projects in the exhibition include Springboard's Maridon Museum, an art museum built from a Victorian-era house and the more recent car dealership next door; dggp architecture's Pittsburgh Glass Center, another car dealership, once abandoned, now an environmentally friendly setting for glassmaking classes, artist studios, a resource library, and exhibition gallery; and The Phantom's Revenge, a Kennywood Park roller coaster conceived by Kennywood Entertainment's chairman of the board, Harry Henninger, Jr., that travels at 82-mph while dropping 232 feet and snaking under and over an existing roller coaster.


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