Photo Tour of Pittsburgh

Welcome to Pittsburgh! Over the summer of 2000 I took a large number of photos around the city, which were for the book called the Guide to Living in Pittsburgh. I want to share some of these pictures (not all of which made it into the book) with my friends, and hence this web page. All of the photos on this page are linked to higher resolution versions (scanned at 100dpi), so if you click on them you will get bigger versions.

Since I am a student at Carnegie Mellon University, I have some pictures of the campus. This building is Hammerschlag Hall, where the faculty of engineering lives. It is neat because the smokestack from the incinerator (no longer used) is disguised as a pretty tower.

The tower looks more dramatic if you take a picture at its base.

If you are lucky enough to be allowed to climb the tower, this is the view of CMU you will get.

A view of the athletic field with a pretty sunset.

Trying to catch the sunset in the glass. Pittsburgh gets very colourful sunsets -- perhaps there is still some pollution in the air.

The computer science building is all fancy and high tech. It has satellite dishes on the roof.

Next door to Carnegie Mellon is the University of Pittsburgh. Its main building is this tower, called the Cathedral of Learning. It is very neat to look around inside of it.

As you walk between Carnegie Mellon and Pitt, watch out for dinosaurs!

The coolest building in all of Pittsburgh has to be PPG place. PPG is Pittsburgh Plate Glass, one of North America's largest manufacturers of automotive glass. This building was featured as the evil headquarters in the critically renowned movie Inspector Gadget.

Churches? We've got churches. Lots of pretty church architecture around the city.

This cathedral is nestled near the University of Pittsburgh campus.

A nice mix of simple and the gradiose, sculpture celebrating the steel workers of Pittsburgh juxtaposed on yet another church.

Down in the strip district (so named because it is the strip of warehouses between the downtown and the river), there is an active night life on the weekends.

Some clubs attract people with shiny motorcycles.

I had to use some stealth in photographing these -- the owners of these bikes make me nervous.

How do you make a club look cool? Station an imposing police officer outside to stand guard.

Inside Metropol, one of the more popular dance clubs there is lots to see. My cheap little camera doesn't really do the light show justice.

Want something more relaxing than a dance club? The city shows movies in the parks during the summer -- you can lie on the grass and enjoy! (All movies are PG or G 'tho. So you only get kids movies.)

What can you do for exercise in this city? Jogging is popular...

...or you can jog in the many parks, through wooded trails.

I happen to like walking. Like walking through the golf course on my way to school.

Pittsburgh is originally a steeltown. There aren't many working mills these days, only monuments like this one.

But the mills that remain add colour to the landscape.

You can tell this town has a lot of history behind it.

The neighbourhoods in Pittsburgh have a lot of character. As do the street signs.

A typical street in Squirrel Hill, which is the neighbourhood I live in. Note the brick road -- lots of roads in Pittsburgh and the surrounding area are still brick or cobblestone.

Pittsburgh has a lot of older houses. If you search hard, you can find extreme examples like this one.