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<b>The new ALCOA WORLD HEADQUARTERS Building, Pittsburgh</b>
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The construction of the new ALCOA Headquarters building has now been <b><font color="FF0000">completed</font color></b>. This new generation of
corporate office supersedes
Harrison Abramovitz's 1953 Alcoa Building as the new world headquarters for the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA).
<p> The new building is located on a waterfront site across
the river from downtown Pittsburgh. It is a six-story
office building (236,200 sq.ft./ 21,300 m2 plus underground garage) to house the company's corporate-core. <p>
Office <b>floor plates</b> are <b>large</b> (29,000
sq.ft./ 2,600 m2 net usable), <b>contiguous</b>, and <b>uninterrupted</b> (all service cores stand <i>outside</i> the office floors).
These long-span, unencumbered loft spaces are serviced from the <b>perimeter cores</b> through <b>raised floors</b>, to be used primarily as flexible <b>open offices</b>.
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Views and natural daylight
penetration to the workspace
are optimized by exceptionally <b>tall floors</b> (ceiling
height of 11 ft. 6 in./
3.5 m.; floor-to-floor height of 15 ft. 10 in./ 4.8 m.); and by
the total transparency of the non-reflective -- "<b>colorless</b>" --
ultra-clear glass, shaded by aluminum <b>external sunscreen</b> ... <p>
The organization of the building is straightforward, utilitarian, and clearly expressed: a parallel alignment of "<b>three buildings</b>" within the parallel alignments of the river-edge ... ...
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Unmediated juxtaposition of these distinct -- elemental -- linear volumes (the <i>serpentine block</i>, the <i>thin vertical-slab</i>, the <i>skyline-silhouette</i> ) ... ...<p>
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© 1996, 1997 <i>Agus Rusli</i>
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The Design Alliance Pittsburgh, Prime Contract / Architect of Record<p>
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