July 18, 2008
Downtown
address:
1150 Griswold St.
data:
Year Built: 1929
Architect: Donaldson and Meier
Style: Art Deco
history:
Located at the corner of Griswold and State Street, this building incorporates brick, marble (on the first three floors from the street), and limestone as its surface materials. As with many of the other Detroit buildings of the era it contains architectural sculpture by Corrado Parducci. [...]
Continue Reading...
July 18, 2008
Oakland County
data:
Year Built: 1930 – present
Architect: Various
history:
The Cranbrook Educational Community, a unique 300 acre campus begun in the 1930s, was envisioned as an artistic community that would help students insert the fundamentals of good design back into everyday life. Cranbrook developed out of a collaboration between Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen and Detroit News owners George and [...]
Continue Reading...