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General Project Information

Architectural Credit:

Architect: MSR Design

Associate Architect: R3A Architecture

Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Project Substantial Completion Date: 6/15/2020
Program type(s): Education - College/University (campus-level), Office – Large, Public Assembly – General
Total Site Area (gross sq. ft): 218,309
Total Building Area (gross sq. ft): 262,400
Project substantial completion date: 6/15/2020
Climate zone: 5a
Project site: Brownfield
Project team: 
Associate Architect: R3A Architecture
Landscape Architect: TEN X TEN Studio
Environmental Design Consultant: Atelier Ten, Inc.
Structural Engineer & MEP Engineer: Bala Consulting Engineers, Inc.
Civil Engineer: GAI Consultants, Inc.
Civil Engineer: Lennon, Smith, Souleret Engineering, Inc.
Code & Fire Protection: Summit Companies
Technology Specialist: True North Consulting Group
Technical Detailer: James R. Larson
Lighting Consultant: Gallina Design, LLC
Building Envelope Commissioning: Architectural Testing, Inc.
Cost Estimator: Project and Construction Services, Inc.

Project Overview:
Mill 19 interweaves 263,200 sf of new speculative commercial space for the city’s robotics industry within the ruins of a historic 1,360 foot-long decommissioned steel mill. Three multi-tenant tech buildings provide office space and areas for design, prototyping, and testing for tenants, including Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute.

Architectural critic Charles Rosenblum writes in Pittsburgh Quarterly, “[Mill 19] is all Pittsburgh. Where else can you find so compelling an architectural embodiment of high-tech resurgence and ecological landscape within the mammoth rusty ruins? And what combination better unites the historical and forward-looking currents of our identity?”

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