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Yamasaki Associates Closes Doors

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In addition to the World Trade Center, Minoru Yamasaki designed several notable local buildings such as One Woodward Avenue (formerly the Michigan Consolidated Gas Company) , several buildings at Wayne State University (including The McGregor Memorial Conference Center), Columbia Center, and the Quo Vadis theater.  The firm continued to operate after Yamasaki died in 1986.

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Book Cadillac Video Walk-thru

This is video footage from a contractor walk-thru in 2000 or 2001 of the Book Cadillac. You may recall that during this time there were other developers and contractors interested in restoring the building.

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GM Warren Technical Center

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If you ever get a chance to go on an architecture tour of GM’s Warren Technical Center and have a fondness of modern architecture you won’t regret it.  Here are a few vintage pictures of some of the more famous buildings on the campus.  There are still so many pictures that I would have like [...]

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