Friday, August 8, 2014

Black and White Weekend: - 8/8/14: "Facade"

asks us to post a black and white photo. No spot colors. No sepia. Black and white, only.

Here's a view of the outside of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh.  There are about 2000 windows in the 42-story building.

Less than a century ago, this kind of building was possible. Today, the labor to build this, plus the materials (the outside and the first floor used Indiana marble) would make a building like this so expensive, even the multi-billionaires of the world would not spend the money to build it, even in a third-world country where labor is cheap.

"Facade"
of the Cathedral of Learning at the
University of Pittsburgh 
(click on image to see a larger view and more detail)

11 comments:

Dragonstar said...

Great perspective.

HansHB said...

Lovely b&w contribution!
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Follygirl said...

great b & w pic !!!

sunshine said...

A strong architecture.

RobertN said...

Beautiful photo.

Annette P.-L. said...

Great in B&W! wonderful perspective!

NatureFootstep said...

impressive!

maryaustria said...

Very impressive, great perspective!

Pat said...

Nice architectural shot. Love the perspective.

Anonymous said...

Great BW post.

Jarek said...

Great perspective. I like