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The Industrialist — a landmark in Pittsburgh’s ‘mini-Manhattan’
实业家酒店:匹兹堡“小曼哈顿”的一个地标

A skyscraper hotel celebrates the city’s smokestack heritage — with culture, cafés and cycle paths just a stroll away
一家摩天大楼酒店庆祝城市的烟囱遗产——文化、咖啡馆和自行车道就在附近。
The Arrott Building, now home to The Industrialist hotel

Pittsburgh’s latest boutique hotel wants its guests to know all about the city’s heritage. There’s no messing about with a name to summon up cocktails at sunset, or that promises minimalist chic. No: if you call your hotel The Industrialist, you are reminding visitors that they are coming to a city once famed for its grime (“Hell with the lid taken off,” as the writer James Parton put it in 1868) and for the so-called robber barons who made fortunes from the steel mills that produced that grime.

匹兹堡最新的精品酒店希望其客人了解这个城市的所有遗产。这里没有什么乱七八糟的名字,可以让人在日落时分想起鸡尾酒,或者承诺极简主义的时尚。不:如果你把你的酒店叫做实业家,你就会提醒游客,他们来到的是一个曾经因其污垢而闻名的城市(正如作家詹姆斯·帕顿在1868年所说的“揭开盖子的地狱”),以及那些从生产这些污垢的钢铁厂中发财的所谓强盗大亨。

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