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Installation Locations
Downtown
Oakland/East End
Additional Lighting Installations
Additional Permanent Lighting Features
Downtown:
 The final night for viewing the Katz Plaza installation is Sunday evening November 8th
Agnes R. Katz Plaza: (This lighting design is best seen and photographed from a distance. For a better view, you may want to see from across the street or other vantage point.) Located in the heart of the vibrant Cultural District, the plaza is named in honor of Agnes R. Katz through the generosity of her children, Marshall Katz, chairman of Cavendish Holdings and a member of The Cultural Trust's Board of Trustees and Andrea Katz McCutcheon.
A collaboration between artists Louise Bourgeois, landscape architect Daniel Urban Kiley and architect Michael Graves, the 23,000 square foot plaza features Mr. Kiley's signature landscape design with 32 linden trees planted closely together.
At the plaza center is a 25-foot bronze fountain featuring a gently sloping, peripheral spiral channel for water to trickle down and around the sculpture. The fountain, designed by Ms. Bourgeois, is her largest sculpture in the U.S.
Ms. Bourgeois also created three pairs of large granite benches resembling human eyes, which surround the fountain sculpture and are accompanied by 22 backless granite benches designed by Mr. Kiley.
Utilized today for performances of all types, Agnes R. Katz Plaza has become a natural gathering spot for visitors and residents alike.
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 Omni William Penn Hotel: The Omni William Penn Hotel is the oldest hotel in the city. Partially financed by Pittsburgh resident Henry Clay Frick, it opened in 1916, and had 1,000 guest rooms. At that time, a room cost $2.50 a night! The William Penn Hotel has a ballroom on the 17th floor, and it retains many of its original features and has played an important role in the careers of celebrities such as Lawrence Welk.
Today, after an extensive restoration, the Omni William Penn continues to be a center of activity for visitors and residents of Pittsburgh.
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David L. Lawrence Convention Center: What began as a vision by a group of determined government, corporate and non-profit foundation leaders became a reality in September 2003 with the official dedication ceremony of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. The opening of the 1.5 million square foot building was so anxiously anticipated by the convention and exposition industry that the building hosted many large trade shows while still under construction.
The David L. Lawrence Convention Center is the largest Gold LEED certified green convention center in the USA and the first of its kind in the world. The designation is awarded by the United States Green Building Council through its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System. The Council found that green is as intrinsic to the David L. Lawrence Convention Center as is its world-class aesthetics and engineering.
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Trinity Cathedral: It is a beautiful gothic church dedicated as the Cathedral church in 1872. It is located in the heart of Pittsburgh on land that was given by the Penn family, which includes adjoining burial grounds of Native Americans, Revolutionary War heroes and early civic leaders.
The present church is the third building for Trinity Cathedral, which occupies another of the church lots donated by the Penn family in 1787. It is located on a terrace, which is the remains of a low hill that was used as a graveyard by Native Americans, French, British, and American settlers; a portion of that graveyard still survives between Trinity and the First Presbyterian Church. The first building - the octagonal "Round Church" - was not built at this location, but at the Sixth and Liberty Avenues, in 1805. The growth of the congregation led to the construction of a second church, under the leadership of rector John Henry Hopkins, in 1824. This was possibly the first Gothic Style building in Pittsburgh, complete with buttresses, a tower, pointed arches, and a painted fan vault ceiling, but it was not archaeologically-accurate and had no clerestory. Hopkins' church was razed in 1869 to allow the construction of the present structure, which was dedicated in 1872. The architect, Gordon Lloyd, was born and trained in England, and was greatly influenced by the English Gothic architects Pugin and Scott. The parish house at the rear, on Oliver Avenue, was designed in 1907 by Crocker & Carpenter. Trinity Church became Trinity Cathedral, seat of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, in 1928.
The exterior was designed in the Early Decorated English Gothic Style that was favored by mid-Victorian Episcopalians, with a single central steeple and side transepts. The interior features a tall nave flanked by aisles and lit by clerestory windows; the plaster nave walls are supported by clustered stone columns. The austere interior ornamentation, in which the pointed arch predominates, is reminiscent of the work of the American Gothicist Richard Upjohn. Some of the stained glass windows in the nave were destroyed in a fire in 1967, and were replaced by new ones in a medieval style. The rest of the windows date from 1872. The carved stone pulpit was built in 1922 to the design of the renowned American architect Bertram G. Goodhue. 328 Sixth Street Pittsburgh, Pa. 15222 - 412.232.0349
www.trinitycathedralpgh.org
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 First Presbyterian Church: 13 of the 14 beautiful stained glass windows were designed and installed by the famous Tiffany Studios. These are the only such windows in which the Tiffany Studios executed a special process; thus making them a unique collection of fine Tiffany windows.
The First Presbyterian Church stands on land that was donated to the church in 1787 by the Penn family for religious purposes. Its first brick church building was built in 1802; this structure was redesigned and expanded by the noted architect Benjamin Latrobe. In 1851-53, a second church building (designed by Pittsburgh architect Charles Bartberger) was built, facing onto Wood Street. The second building was demolished and replaced when the congregation sold the Wood Street frontage for the construction of the McCreery Department Store Building (300 Sixth Avenue, 1904, by Daniel Burnham). The present church structure was designed by a Philadelphia architect who ended up designing three Presbyterian churches in Pittsburgh.
The exterior design is in the English Gothic style, and its twin-towered facade is reminiscent of Gothic cathedral design. The interior was laid out as a single large rectangular space, with the pulpit at one end and galleries raised along the sides. In this way, the architecture emphasizes the preaching function of the service. There are no full-height piers in the space because the roof is carried on two massive arched wooden trusses that span the length of the church, above the fronts of the galleries. These structurally-daring trusses are encased in elaborately carved woodwork. The ceiling between the arches is borne on hammer truss beams. The curved paneled wall behind the stone pulpit opens to reveal a rear wing that is lined with three levels of Sunday-school classrooms. The rough stone walls on the interior are opened up by significant stained-glass windows. All of the nave windows, except one, were designed and produced by the Tiffany Studios in New York. The large "east" window, in the Sunday-school wing, is the work of Clayton & Bell, of London, and depicts a "Jesse Tree", or genealogy of Christ. The "west" window, in the facade of the church, was designed and built by William Willett of Boston.
320 Sixth Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa. 15222
www.fpcp.org
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Church of the Epiphany: Marble for the sanctuary was ordered and cut in Pietrasanta, Italy and reconstructed when it was delivered to Epiphany Church. Various marbles are used. These include, Carrara, the purplish yellow Pavonazzo, Dipolliono, red Verona and the deep Numidian.
The Church of the Epiphany is one of the few reminders that the Lower Hill section of Pittsburgh was once a thriving residential neighborhood on the edge of the Golden Triangle. It was designed in the form of an Italian Romanesque basilica, and built of redbrick with terra cotta trim. The interior decoration, which includes frescoes, was designed by John Comes, a principal designer of Catholic churches in the Pittsburgh area at the time. Epiphany Church served as the temporary Roman Catholic cathedral from 1903 to 1906, when the new St. Paul's Cathedral was opened in Oakland. The church is the center of a complex of four buildings, including a parish house (1902), a school (1910), and the St. Regis Residence (1914). 1018 Centre Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa. 15222
www.epiphanychurch.net
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First Evangelical Lutheran Church: Has served Downtown Pittsburgh since it’s founding in 1837 as the First English-speaking Lutheran church west of the Alleghenies.
Begun while the Allegheny County Courthouse was being completed, the Romanesque style First Lutheran Church reflects the design of the Courthouse with its rusticated stonework and vermillion-tinted mortar. It is the successor of the first church built by this congregation in 1840 at Seventh Avenue and Montour Way. Plans were drawn up in 1874 for a church building at Penn Avenue and Ninth Street, but were later abandoned when the lot on Grant Street was purchased. The exterior of the present building is dominated by tall gabled roofs and a spire that rises 170 feet.
The plan of the church is in the form of a Greek cross, which gives it a centralized character. The white plaster walls are broken with three tall windows; the window in the north transept ("The Good Shepherd") was designed by Frederick Wilson and fabricated by the Tiffany Studios in 1898. The altar, which was installed after 1892, was designed in the Italian Renaissance style, with mosaics.
615 Grant Street Pittsburgh, Pa. 15219 - 412.471.8125
www.flcpittsburgh.org
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 St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish: St. Patrick, the first parish of the Diocese of Pittsburgh and St. Stanislaus Kostka, the first ethnic Polish parish, and St. Elizabeth of Hungary, the first Slovak parish in the city were united into one parish. St. Patrick-St Stanislaus Kostka Paris
21st Street and Smallman Pittsburgh, Pa. 15222
www.Saintsinthestrip.org
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St. Benedict the Moor Church: Established July 28, 1889. The parish’s vision was and is continuously focused on serving our African-American heritage and openness to other cultures. 91 Crawford Street Pittsburgh, Pa. 15219
www.stbenedictthemoor.org
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Oakland/East End:
 Cathedral of Learning: The Cathedral of Learning, a historic landmark, is the second-tallest education building in the world—42 stories and 535 feet tall. It is also the geographic and traditional heart of the University of Pittsburgh campus.
In 1921, John Gabbert Bowman travelled to the city to become the tenth chancellor of the University. At that time, the school consisted of a series of buildings constructed along Henry Hornbostel’s plan for the campus and included "temporary" wooden structures built during World War 1. He then began to envision a "tall building", that would be later termed the Cathedral of Learning, to provide a dramatic symbol of education for the city and elevate overcrowding by adding much needed more space in order to meet present and future needs of the University.
His reasoning is summarized in this quote:
The building was to be more than a schoolhouse; it was to be a symbol of the life that Pittsburgh through the years had wanted to live. It was to make visible something of the spirit that was in the hearts of pioneers as, long ago, they sat in their log cabins and thought by candlelight of the great city that would sometime spread out beyond their three rivers and that even they were starting to build.
In attempting to find a suitable place for this building, Bowman's eyes were drawn to a 14-acre plot of land named Frick Acres. In November 1921, with aid from the Mellon family, the University bought the plot, and began plans for a proper university building on the site.
One of the foremost Gothic architects of the time, Philadelphian Charles Klauder, was hired to design the tower. The design took two years to finish, with the final plan attempting to fuse the idea of a modern skyscraper with the tradition and ideals of Gothic architecture. The plans received strong resistance from the community and from some University officials, who felt it was too tall for the city.
The building was realized with the help of contributions from men, women, and children throughout the region and the world. During the peak of the Depression, when funding for the project became especially challenging, school children were encouraged to contribute a dime to "buy a brick."
In addition to the magnificent three-story "Commons Room" at ground level, the Cathedral of Learning also contains classrooms (including the internationally renowned Nationality Classrooms), the University's administrative offices, libraries, a computer center, a restaurant, and offices and classrooms for many liberal arts departments and is recognized globally as a symbol of the University and the city of Pittsburgh’s standing as a beacon of higher education.
Trivia tidbit: The Cathedral of Learning has 2,529 windows.
Click Here for Design Description from Casa Magica
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Stephen Foster Memorial: The Stephen Foster Memorial is dedicated to American music and to Stephen Foster, a native of Pittsburgh and composer of some of America's best-loved songs, including "Beautiful Dreamer," "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair," “Oh! Susanna,” and “Camptown Races.” The memorial is a Pennsylvania state and Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historical Landmark and a contributing property to the Schenley Farms National Historic District along Forbes Avenue in Pittsburgh, on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh.
It is one of three buildings at the center of the Pitt campus—the others being the Cathedral of Learning and Heinz Memorial Chapel—designed by Charles Klauder. Dedicated in 1937, it houses the University's Center for American Music as well as two theaters: the 478-seat Charity Randall Theatre, 151-seat Henry Heymann Theatre, and performance spaces for Pitt's Department of Theatre Arts. The left wing of the building comprises the Center for American Music, a research library, archive, and museum containing one of the nation’s most significant collections of 19th-century American music.
In 2003, a $2 million renovation of the Stephen Foster Memorial was completed. Seating and lighting in the Charity Randall Theatre were reconditioned, replicating the intimate grandeur and features of the original Foster auditorium, including the restored 1930s seats that are identical to those first installed in New York City's Radio City Music Hall.
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 Heinz Memorial Chapel: Henry J. Heinz said of the chapel, “It is located where my father was born and lived his life. It is on the campus of a university, it is dedicated to culture, an understanding response to beauty, and religious worship”.
Forbes Avenue and Bigelow Blvd. Pittsburgh, Pa 15213
www.pitt.edu
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St. Paul Cathedral: The mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh. It is the spiritual center for more than three quarter of a million Catholics in the Diocese of Pittsburgh.
5th Avenue @ Craig Street Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213
www.catholic-church.org/stpaulcathedralpgh/
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Holy Spirit Byzantine Church: During the first decade of the twentieth century, immigrants from Carpatho-Ruthenia, a small portion of the vast Austro-Hungsrian Empire began to settle in Oakland. There they established their church in 1907.
4815 5th Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213
http://archeparchy.org/page/directories/parishes/pittsburghhs.htm
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Rodef Shalom Congregation: The oldest Jewish congregation in Western Pennsylvania, as well as the largest Reform congregation, celebrates the 150th anniversary of its charter as well as the 100th anniversary of its landmark Fifth Avenue Building.
4905 5th Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213 - 412.621.6566
www.rodefshalom.org
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 Sacred Heart Parish: The Façade window over the main entrance to the church is one of the largest windows of precious glass in America.
310 Shady Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa. 15206 - 412.661.0187
http://www.parishesonline.com/scripts/hostedsites/org
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Calvary Episcopal Church: (lights on Saturday, October 27) It is one of the most extraordinary Gothic Revival churches in North America. It was also the location for the first radio broadcast of a religious service, which was carried by the then new KDKA station in Pittsburgh.
315 Shady Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa. 15206 - 412.661.0120
www.calvarypgh.org
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East Liberty Presbyterian Church: (Final day - Thursday, November 13th) It is the first type of Christian architecture, which seeks to express in virtually every detail the essence of the Biblical faith, hence the cruciform floor plan. Form and function are perfectly combined in every detail to a degree rarely, if ever, realized in other types of Christian architecture.
116 S. Highland Avenue Pittsburgh 15206
www.cathedralofhope.org
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Eastminster Presbyterian Church: In 1876 the original name was Sixth United Presbyterian Church. In 1961 it became Eastminster (“minster” was originally a monastery that had a church attached to it, but eventually the word came to mean any large church)
250 N. Highland Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa. 15206
http://66.246.253.175/
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 Saint. Agnes’ Center at Carlow University: The St. Agnes Center of Carlow University was designed by renowned architect John Theodore Comes who founded the Pittsburgh Architectural Club in 1896. A devout Roman Catholic, Mr. Comes specialized in ecclesiastical design. In Pittsburgh alone, he designed more than 50 churches, schools, rectories, and convents. The St. Agnes Center of Carlow University stands as an outstanding example of his inspiring work. Fifth Avenue and Robinson Street Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213
1.800.333.CARLOW
www.carlow.edu
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Additional Locations:
 Sri Venkateswara Temple: It is modeled after the famed Venkateswara temple in Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh, India) and its 7th century architecture. The cost of approximately $925,00 came from donors who were mostly first generation Indian immigrants. 1230 S. McCully Drive P.O.Box 17280, Penn Hills Pa. 15235
www.svtemple.org
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Calvary United Methodist Church: The cornerstone was laid May 18, 1893. Through the diligent efforts of the Allegheny Historic Preservation Society and the Pittsburgh community, the trio of Louis Comfort stained glass windows, have finally been restored. These are the crowing features of the building. 971 Beech Street Pittsburgh, Pa. 15233
www.calvarymethodistpittsburgh.org
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 Saint Mary of the Mount: An example of Gothic architecture, this church was erected at a cost of $70,000. The dedication of the building that stands today was December19, 1897. The 10 beautiful stained glass windows are a pictorial view of the life of Christ. 403 Grandview Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa. 15211 - 412.381.0202
www.smomp.org
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Additional Permanent Lighting Features:
“For Pittsburgh” at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center
Artist Jenny Holzer’s “For Pittsburgh” is her largest LED project in the United States. The piece includes quotations from five nevels by authors with Pittsburgh roots: Annie Dillard, John Edgar Wideman and Thomas Bell. This dramatic permanent installation scrolls upward along hundreds of feet of the swooping roofline of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
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 Water Feature at the David L. Lawrence
Convention Center
Accessible from Penn Avenue, this dramatic installation descends 17 feet from the street to the river through fountain pools and waterfalls. The walls surrounding the path flow with water and uplighting creating an inspiring environment as you walk to the banks of the Allegheny River. The Center’s architect, Rafael Vinoly, New York, designed the feature with the assistance of Crystal Fountains, Ontario Canada.
www.pittsburghcc.com
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“Articulated Cloud” at the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum
Artist Ned Kahn collaborated with architects Koning Eizenberg Architecture to create an art piece that transforms the polycarbonate screen on the new building into a giant wind sculpture. Tens of thousands of hinged flaps are attached to the screen and reflect wind currents in a dynamic way, making the building appear to move and shimmer. An in the evening, the lighted wind sculpture sparkles and glitters in the night sky.
www.pittsburghkids.org
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“E-Motion” at Carnegie Science Center
Was is that funny cone on top of Carnegie Science Center? It’s E-Motion, a computerized lighting system that displays different colored lights based on forecasted weather. Red lights on E-Motion indicate warmer weather, blue lights are cooler weather, green indicates no anticipated change, yellow warns of severe weather and a flashing color indicates a likelihood of precipitation. For the Pittsburgh 250 Festival of Lights, E-Motion will flash a patriotic red, white and blue scheme every evening starting at sunset.
www.carnegiesciencecenter.org
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Mary Schenley Memorial Fountain (adjacent to Schenley Plaza)
The work of art entitled, “A Son of Nature” comprises two major figures: a reclining Pan, the Greek god of shepherds, and above him a female singer playing a lyre. From crevices along the fountain’s rim four turtles spew water from the basin. Victor David Brenner, who is famous today for his design of the Lincoln cent penny, which is still in circulation, designed the fountain.
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 The John C. and Darlene D. Mascaro Water Wall
at the University of Pittsburgh
The sculpture is part of the Biomedical Sciences Tower III complex and was originally conceived by the Dean of the School of Medicine who was inspired by the water feature at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. The sculpture is named after the CEO of Mascaro Construction and his wife. (Corner of Fifth Avenue and Darragh Street, Oakland)
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Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School
Working in tandem with Renaissance 3 Architects, P.C., school officials have fabricated and installed a fence which is made from galvanized tubular steel and perforated mesh, the fence allows light to still enter the school. The large patios, once unsafe, have now become areas for the children to play at recess. At night, each panel of the fence is illuminated with its own LED light fixture. The LED light fixtures continuously color shift, making for a spectacular sight. Surpassed only by the Empire State Building, the Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School security fence is the largest installation in the world of these LED light fixtures.
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“Migration” by Doug Aitken at Carnegie Museum of Art
Migration is an odyssey through a contemporary, American landscape of seemingly abandoned hotels and motels. Encompassing executive airport suites and desolate, nondescript inns, in habited or haunted, by mammals and birds indigenous to the American West, Migration’s sequences eveoke a scenario in which places of temporary human habitation are confronted with instinctive and wild forces.
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