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The skyline of Detroit in 2015. This list of tallest buildings in Detroit ranks skyscrapers and high rises in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan by height. The tallest skyscraper in Detroit is the 73-story Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center, which rises 727 feet (222 m) along Detroit's International Riverfront.
Burnham's three remaining Detroit skyscraper designs are the Neo-Classical styled Chrysler House (1912) — renovated in 2002, and the Neo-Renaissance Whitney (1915) and Ford (1909) buildings. Among their early projects, Smith Hinchman & Grylls designed the Neo-Gothic R.H. Fyfe Building (1919) at Woodward and Adams, now converted to a ...
The Renaissance Center, commonly known as the RenCen, [8] is a complex of seven connected skyscrapers in downtown Detroit, Michigan, United States.Located on the Detroit International Riverfront, the RenCen is owned and used by General Motors as its world headquarters.
The chart below shows the skyscraper, its height, when it was completed, how long it was the tallest, and what skyscraper surpassed it. The Frank & Seder (1881) is considered Detroit's oldest existing iron-framed tall building. The Hammond Building (1889) is considered Detroit's first steel-framed skyscraper, though it is now demolished.
In the mid-1990s, Poris and McIntosh belonged to a group of local architects and planners who advocated for preserving — and not razing — the many empty buildings at the time in downtown Detroit.
Guardian Building is a landmark 43-story office skyscraper in the Financial District of downtown Detroit, Michigan.Built from 1928 to 1929, the building was originally called the Union Trust Building [3] and is a bold example of Art Deco architecture, including art moderne designs. [4]
Book Tower is a 145 m (476 ft), 38-story skyscraper located at 1265 Washington Boulevard in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Washington Boulevard Historic District. Construction began on the Italian Renaissance -style building in 1916, as an addition to the original Book Building, and finished a decade later, making it, at the time, the ...
Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) [1] was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" [2] and "father of modernism". [3] He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.