![]() ![]() Grab your room key and head smugly upstairs via the elevator with complementary pair of coffee tokens for Stumptown Coffees, then the typical Ace details unravel. Meanwhile the Ace in Pittsburgh is spacious and its former YMCA ceiling vaulting, as if in competition with an East Liberty Presbyterian Church, located across the street. By contrast, arrive at Ace Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles and you’ll need a sharp agility to halt your advance before passing into the hotel, or make it up the stairs at the Ace next to Pike Place Market and either enter your room or lurk in the shallow reception. Whereas a number of earlier Ace Hotels have had to put up with cramped, if historic, urban locations, the Ace of the former steel capital reaches out and up from within, no doubt thanks to a ready supply of locally sourced girders. Jump forward to 2018 and Pittsburgh has fully developed as a trendy metropolis, complete with an Andy Warhol museum, Richard Serra sculptures and, most recently, the arrival of the Ace Hotel brand to the city’s attractive Shadyside neighbourhood. At the beginning of the 20th century, Pittsburgh was producing half the country’s steel, granting it a status which is just about retained until foreign competition put the industry under pressure from 1970. Venturing inland from coastal Philadelphia to Pittsburgh is its kind of Pennsylvanian pilgrimage, a routing through which the passages of the industrialisation of the United States became fully realised. ![]()
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