US Steel Tower
| US Steel Tower | |
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| Basic data | |
| Place: |
Pittsburgh , United States
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| Construction time : | 1968-1970 |
| Status : | Built |
| Architect : | Harrison Abramovitz and Abbe |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | offices |
| Owner : | US Steel |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 256 m |
| Height to the roof: | 256 m |
| Rank (height) : | 1st place (Pittsburgh) 45th place (USA) |
| Floors : | 64 |
| Elevators : | 58 |
| Usable area : | 217,000 m² |
| Building material : | Structure: steel ; Facade: glass , aluminum |
The US Steel Tower is a skyscraper in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , that was completed in 1970. The building is 256 meters high and is still the tallest skyscraper in the city. The US Steel Tower, named after its owner, the US Steel company , has 64 floors with around 217,000 square meters of floor space. These can be reached with 58 elevators. After its completion in 1970, the tower was temporarily the tallest building in the USA outside of New York and Chicago , but lost this title in 1987 to One Liberty Place in Philadelphia , which also surpassed it within the state of Pennsylvania. In 1988 the tower was renamed the USX Tower , but from 2002 the tower was again called the US Steel Tower. The building is not open to the public.
See also
- List of high-rise buildings in Pennsylvania
- List of tallest buildings in the United States
- List of tallest buildings in North and Central America
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Coordinates: 40 ° 26 ′ 29 ″ N , 79 ° 59 ′ 41 ″ W.