Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Detroit, as seen from Windsor, Canada. The following is a list of people from Detroit, Michigan. This list includes notable people who were born, have lived, or worked in and around Detroit as well as its metropolitan area.
Joseph N. French, designer of Detroit's Fisher Building; Norman Bel Geddes, architectural industrial designer, aviation designer, and theatrical designer best known for the 1939 New York World's Fair pavilion Futurama he designed for General Motors (born in Adrian) Eric J. Hill, University of Michigan professor
The Buildings of Detroit: A History. Wayne State University Press. Fisher, Dale (1996). Ann Arbor: Visions of the Eagle. Grass Lake, Michigan: Eyry of the Eagle Publishing. ISBN 0-9615623-4-X. Fisher, Dale (2003). Building Michigan: A Tribute to Michigan's Construction Industry. Grass Lake, Michigan: Eyry of the Eagle Publishing. ISBN 1-891143 ...
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.
Demolition of the remaining buildings of the Frederick Douglass Homes began in September 2013. [9] Demolition was substantially complete by the end of August 2014. From historic marker on the site of Brewster Homes. Between 1910 and 1940 Detroit, Michigan's African American population increased dramatically. In 1935, First Lady Eleanor ...
The original World Trade Center in 2001, the most well known buildings designed by Yamasaki. This is a list of works by architect Minoru Yamasaki. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch Building annex, Detroit, Michigan, 1951; Pruitt–Igoe housing project, St. Louis, Missouri, [1] 1954 (demolished in 1972)
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 ...
Nathan Johnson (1926–2021), was an American modernist architect in Detroit, Michigan. [1] [2] He designed some of the most iconic 1960s churches in Detroit, [2] and it is estimated at forty churches.