VIDEO – Mellon Square: A Modern Masterpiece

Had a great time last night at our reception for the opening of Marvels of Modernism and the tribute to John O. Simonds, who designed Mellon Square. We premiered a brand-new video celebrating Mellon Square’s importance to Pittsburgh and the many innovative elements of its design. Check it out below!

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Marveling at Mellon Square

My husband and I are about to duck out of Pittsburgh for a long weekend and head to Los Angeles to visit some friends.  While I’m definitely excited for warm, sunny days, I’m also interested in visiting Pershing Square Park.  It is a park on top of a parking garage just like our own Mellon [...]

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Be There or Be Square

f you’re like me, you’ve probably parked at the Mellon Square garage downtown dozens of times without ever realizing the significance of the park above it.  But the next time you’re winding your way underground, you might stop to appreciate the fact that Mellon Square is a nationally renowned landscape that was part of Pittsburgh’s [...]

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Oasis in the City: Mellon Square is an Icon of Modernism

Here’s the second in our series of full-length articles whose abridged versions appear in the Winter 2009 Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy newsletter.  We apologize once again for the incorrect links in the print version!
Among Pittsburgh’s many “firsts” is Mellon Square–the first modern garden plaza built over a parking garage, and a forerunner of today’s green roof [...]

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