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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 Fisher Building is a landmark skyscraper located at 3011 West Grand Boulevard in the heart of the New Center area of Detroit, Michigan.The ornate 30-story building, completed in 1928, is one of the major works of architect Albert Kahn, and is designed in an Art Deco style, faced with limestone, granite, and several types of marble.
A distinctive feature of Detroit's skyline, the RenCen is widely considered to be a landmark and cultural icon of the city. [8] [14] With 5,552,000 square feet (515,800 m 2) of usable space, it is one of the world's largest commercial complexes, and the central tower has been the tallest building in Michigan since its completion in 1977.
The David Whitney Building is a historic class-A skyscraper located at 1 Park Avenue (1550 Woodward Avenue from 1921 to 2014), on the northern edge of Downtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Grand Circus Park Historic District. The building stands on a wedge-shaped site at the junction of Park Avenue, Woodward Avenue, and Washington Boulevard.
Mothballing is ultimately what saved dilapidated downtown buildings as the Book Cadillac hotel, the Metropolitan Building at 33 John R and the iconic Michigan Central Station until Detroit's ...
The Hudson's site skyscraper, 1208 Woodward Ave., is now the second tallest building in Detroit, behind only the 727-foot-tall central tower of the Renaissance Center. View this post on Instagram
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]