Sky Garden, Porches Dress Up Energy-Stingy PNC Tower

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A tower under construction in Pittsburgh aspires to be the greenest in the world. I’ve heard that one before, and I usually don’t buy it.

Yet the design of the 33-story PNC Financial Group headquarters impresses because amenities come with energy-conservation tactics that even the most ecologically oriented companies in the U.S. have largely shunned.