Solution To Sign Pollution
15 March 2002 - 12:00pm
Pittsburgh's planning commission struggles with signage on the famous United Steelworkers Building.
"Often a sign is erected long after the building was completed, and the original architects have no input. So the sign ends up looking like a stuck-on afterthought, and the skyline a herd of rounded-up, branded cattle.The Steelworkers want to use their building to promote their union on national television."
Source:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 12, 2002
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