What’s crazy to me is that many of these buildings may have been a huge part of someone’s life and memory, and today most people don’t even know they existed. I mean you could’ve walked past "Skinny Minnie" every day for 35 years, your entire career.
BrightonSpartansays
Detroit cannot have nice things
thisismy1staltsays
Looks like it became the spirit of Detroit plaza. tragically fitting…Detroit destroying its architectural legacy for open space or parking. Looks like it was initially to widen / extend Woodward to Jefferson/the River and was only recently made a plaza with some cheap looking bollards and fading street paint.
WhiskeyDiscoFoxtrotsays
I actually think this became (a little sliver of) the Yamasaki building downtown.
I had never seen this before or known of its existence, but so interesting to rectify that history with the equally important historical building that stands in its place. Yamasaki Building Today
suicidepostersays
It’s so cute!
hybr_dysays
One Woodward Avenue stands roughly in its place now. It was the first skyscraper designed by Minoru Yamasaki and is considered to be the precursor to the World Trade Center Towers destroyed on 9/11
If the circumstances somehow came to be, I’d support rebuilding much of Detroit’s lost architecture in the same way Dresden or Warsaw were rebuilt after WWII
tankflykev says
https://historicdetroit.org/buildings/citizens-building
Grinch89 says
What’s crazy to me is that many of these buildings may have been a huge part of someone’s life and memory, and today most people don’t even know they existed. I mean you could’ve walked past "Skinny Minnie" every day for 35 years, your entire career.
BrightonSpartan says
Detroit cannot have nice things
thisismy1stalt says
Looks like it became the spirit of Detroit plaza. tragically fitting…Detroit destroying its architectural legacy for open space or parking. Looks like it was initially to widen / extend Woodward to Jefferson/the River and was only recently made a plaza with some cheap looking bollards and fading street paint.
WhiskeyDiscoFoxtrot says
I actually think this became (a little sliver of) the Yamasaki building downtown.
I had never seen this before or known of its existence, but so interesting to rectify that history with the equally important historical building that stands in its place. Yamasaki Building Today
suicideposter says
It’s so cute!
hybr_dy says
One Woodward Avenue stands roughly in its place now. It was the first skyscraper designed by Minoru Yamasaki and is considered to be the precursor to the World Trade Center Towers destroyed on 9/11
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Woodward_Avenue
Ouchglassinbutt says
Michigan avenue?
Last-gent says
If the circumstances somehow came to be, I’d support rebuilding much of Detroit’s lost architecture in the same way Dresden or Warsaw were rebuilt after WWII