Saturday, July 26
10:00 am – 11:30 am
$25 per person
This tour is limited to 20 participants.
Tickets will not be available after 11:30 pm on July 25.
Here’s a recipe for a scrumptious architectural experience: Take one 19th-century Renaissance Revival-style U.S. Post Office building. Add a disused planetarium in the “stripped classicism” of the 1930s, when it was built.
To bind them, mix in a contemporary building sheathed in thousands of plastic squares that sing when the wind blows. Top off the assemblage by re-purposing a beloved 1880s library building constructed by one of Pittsburgh’s great industrialists, leaving visible all vestiges of the building’s past lives.
What do you get? A feast for the visual palate that will stick in your memory long after you leave this extraordinary collection of buildings that comprise the largest cultural campus for children in the United States.