Oxford Centre

Oxford Centre
View of One Oxford Centre from West End Bridge
General information
Type	Office
Coordinates	40°26′17″N 79°59′56″W / 40.43806°N 79.99889°W / 40.43806; -79.99889Coordinates: 40°26′17″N 79°59′56″W / 40.43806°N 79.99889°W / 40.43806; -79.99889
Construction started	May 31, 1980
Completed	1983
Cost	$100 million
Height
Roof	615 ft (187 m)
Technical details
Floor count	46
Design and construction
Developer	Oxford Development Company

One Oxford Centre is one of the major distinctive and recognizable features of Downtown Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, United States. Although it is mainly identified by its main tower, it is actually a complex of six "buildings," all of matching glass and steel design. The complex is named for Oxford Development, the building owner.

Completed in 1983, One Oxford Centre has 46 floors in its main tower and rises 615 feet (187 m) above Downtown Pittsburgh. Although its address is simply One Oxford Centre, the building is located on the 300 block of Grant Street. The tower has nearly 1,500,000 square feet (140,000 m²) of office and high-end retail space and has a full service health/business club inside of it, The Rivers Club. The complex also contains a multi-level parking garage and some street level retail and office space one block west of Grant Street.

At night, forty-three 1,500-watt spotlights illuminate the Centre with a total of 54,500 watts that create a glowing effect that is said to be greater than any other highrise in the United States. One Oxford Centre was developed by Oxford Development Company and designed by famed architect Hellmuth, Obata, & Kassabaum.

The building is designed the way it is, with so many sides, because the developers wanted as many corner offices in the building as possible.

Among the commercial tenants of One Oxford Centre are the law firms of Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney and Portnoy & Quinn.^[1]

A composite image of the main tower of PPG Place and Oxford Centre is used as the Fiddler's Green luxury high-rise in the movie Land of the Dead. Another interesting fact is that a street (Cherry Way) passes through the tower on its lower levels.

In 1999 Steve Kangas died on the 39th floor in the restroom of the offices of Richard Mellon Scaife.

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Pittsburgh

References

1. ^ Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Pittsburgh Office information

• Toker, Franklin (2007). Buildings of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh: Chicago: Society of Architectural Historians; Santa Fe: Center for American Places ; Charlottesville: In association with the University of Virginia Press. ISBN 0-8139-2650-5. 

Preceded by Gulf Tower	Pittsburgh Skyscrapers by Height 615 feet (187 m) 46 floors	Succeeded by Fifth Avenue Place
Preceded by Mellon Center	Pittsburgh Skyscrapers by Year of Completion 1983	Succeeded by PPG Place

External links

Media related to Oxford Centre at Wikimedia Commons

• One Oxford Centre homepage
• Oxford Development
• One Oxford Centre at Skyscrapers.com
• One Oxford Centre at Structurae