 
Softailrider
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Username: Softailrider
Post Number: 25
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 6:29 am: |    |
I can't believe that nobody mentioned the the main fire department building at Larned and Washington Blvd . |
Gistok
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Username: Gistok
Post Number: 4009
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 2:09 pm: | |
Well I disagree, from Windsor the Comerica Tower looks great! It may have a fancy top... but that's better than a flat top, like other modern buildings. There's hundreds of buildings in Detroit that look worse...
And all that main Fire Department building needs is a good power wash. It is beautiful building, especially those arches above the truck entrances. Back in the 1990's Denver developer John Madden wanted to buy that building, and put up a 40 story office tower named Firehouse Plaza on top of the existing structure (although realistically he probably would have just save the current buildings exterior, and put in new foundations). But the lack of office space demands ended that idea. |
Detrola
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Username: Detrola
Post Number: 41
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 6:31 am: | |
More midtown than downtown, I know. However, the addition to the rear of Wayne State's OLD MAIN building may be the ugliest structure in the city. The SW Detroit Hospital near Michigan AVE & I96 runs a close second. |
Urbanize
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Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 516
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 8:56 am: | |
Detrola, Anything from the New Center to Downtown is all fair game. |
Unclefrank
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Username: Unclefrank
Post Number: 55
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 10:24 am: | |
A big 10-4 on the fist. That thing is truly obnoxious |
Bobj
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Username: Bobj
Post Number: 1891
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 10:48 am: | |
DTE Energy Bldg
McNamera Bldg
Trolley Plaza
No imagination at all, who would build these places?? |
Urbanize
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Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 645
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 - 12:11 pm: | |
bump |
Jdkeepsmiling
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Username: Jdkeepsmiling
Post Number: 245
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 - 4:24 pm: | |
Sorry, but I say Riverfront Apartments, mainly because, like the RenCen, it was designed as a fortress. Keep everyone out. |
Ltdave
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Username: Ltdave
Post Number: 39
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 - 10:11 pm: | |
i love the Comerica Bldg. i was SHOCKED to find it was only about 16 years old...
before i left for the Air Force i wasnt that much into Detroit and its buildings. i really didnt get into them until about 4 years ago...
i think the McNamara fed building is pretty crappy...
david |
Urbanize
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Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 670
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 - 10:14 pm: | |
Pat McNamara would find the developer of that building and kill him/her if he was able to see that eyesore they named after him. |
Scs100
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Username: Scs100
Post Number: 723
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 - 10:18 pm: | |
Ltdave, you've never been in the building have you? It's about as bad inside as out. First floor looks like the Ren Cen concrete. Ugly. Not much else to admire farther up. If anything, a nice view of the river. |
Southen
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Username: Southen
Post Number: 125
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 - 10:23 pm: | |
My list in no particular order:
McNamara Federal Building
Trolley Plaza
Millender Center (not horrible but not great)
Riverfront Towers
I do like Comerica though, or should I call it One Detroit. My only real beef with it is how it interacts at the street. Would have been cool to see it twinned.
Not a huge fan of the cheese grater but I do like CAY and Yamasaki's One Woodward and how they represent that style very well. |
Urbanize
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Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 671
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 - 10:27 pm: | |
I surprised no one mentioned the NAtional Bank of Detroit Headquarters. That building is worser than the Milli, the design and style of it. |
Urbanize
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Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 672
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 - 10:32 pm: | |
Oh, that building on Woodward and MAck is BUTT UGLY. (For the ones that are wondering which one, the Gray Office Rise High just north of Mack) |
Urbanize
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Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 709
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 5:01 pm: | |
bump |
Quozl
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Username: Quozl
Post Number: 385
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 6:13 pm: | |
That building is worser than...
WORSER? What country are from from cowboy? Christ, learn the ENGLISH language Moe Ron. |
Urbanize
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Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 712
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 6:31 pm: | |
"WORSER? What country are from from cowboy? Christ, learn the ENGLISH language Moe Ron."
No, I meant what I said. That's how ugly the building is. You have to create a new word to describe it. Who the hell is Moe Ron Mister English? |
Urbanize
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Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 713
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 7:41 pm: | |
Well apparently you must not have much rattling in that head of yours if all you can do all day is insult people about off-topic issues. MasterBlaster huh, he must have blasted all the sense out of your head. You need to get a life really if all you have time for is childish games. You know what though, I will just ignore statements like "urBANeyes", as it just reveals alone to your fellow forum member how ignorant you can be. |
Eastsidedame
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Username: Eastsidedame
Post Number: 75
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 9:12 pm: | |
I'm going with the McNamara Building: "brutalist" architectural style, primarily constructed of concrete and a monotonous facade. Sort of looks like an ivory tower, which is ironic for a Federal building.
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/b u/?id=118510 |
Urbanize
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Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 721
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 9:13 pm: | |
"File not Found" says the linked website. |
Eastsidedame
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Username: Eastsidedame
Post Number: 76
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 9:29 pm: | |
Sorry, they moved the photo of the McNamara Building; it's now here:
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/b u/sh/?id=101037&txt=McNamara&b utton=Search |
Paulmcall
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Username: Paulmcall
Post Number: 85
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, April 08, 2007 - 11:44 am: | |
Joe Louis Arena isn't exactly the Ritz either. |
Skamour14
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Username: Skamour14
Post Number: 95
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, April 08, 2007 - 2:00 pm: | |
ummm the ponchatrain???????? yeah and some of the buildings in mid-town, I was just downtown for the first time in awhile.... and although I have to admit the new casino's look very nice its exciting to see that the skyline is expanding further out!!!!! is it just me or is something going on here?????? |
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