In Popular Culture
- The building serves as Dr. Claw's company headquarters (and hideout) in the 1999 film Inspector Gadget
- 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.
- Several buildings in PPG Place are featured prominently in the Spike TV series The Kill Point, set in Pittsburgh.
- In 1997's Steven Seagal film Fire Down Below, the exterior of the skyscraper is shown before the headquarters scenes of the corporate congolmerate.
- Skateboarder Bam Margera refers to PPG Place as a "castle building" while visiting Pittsburgh during filming of his series Bam's Unholy Union.
- In the Fallout 3 DLC "The Pitt", a disfigured version of the main tower of PPG Place can be seen on the horizon with flames spewing from a few of the spires.
- Some of the interior scenes of Unstoppable (2010 film) were filmed in PPG Place.
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