Type Office Roof 616 ft (188 m) Height 188 m Opened 1987 Architect Hugh Stubbins | Completed 1988 Floor count 31 Floors 32 Construction started 1985 | |
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Location 120 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh Cost $100 million ($230.5 million today) Similar PPG Place, One Oxford Centre, Market Square, US Steel Tower, Three PNC Plaza | ||
Fifth Avenue Place (originally "Hillman Tower", sometimes called Highmark Place for its major tenant) is a skyscraper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. United States.
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Map of Fifth Avenue Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA
The building was completed on April 14, 1988 and it has 31 floors. Located at the corner of Liberty Avenue and Fifth Avenue, it rises 616 feet (188 m) above Downtown Pittsburgh. The structure is made up of a unique granite frame for roughly the first 450 feet (140 m), then collapses inward in a pyramidal shape for another 124-foot-tall (38 m) 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 (54 m) 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.
Shopping center
There is a shopping center with two floors.