Architects for the GM Renaissance Center in Detroit include John Portman, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill SOM, Gensler SmithGroup, Ghafari Associates, and Morris E. Harrison as engineer. The seven Modernist skyscrapers are arranged symmetrically on an axis from the city out …
Category: Michigan
(Velcro.– flickr/creative commons license) Marcel Breuer and Associates designed the Saint Francis de Sales Parish in Muskegon, Michigan, completed in 1966. Known for his curving Brutalist forms, Breuer employed a hyperbolic paraboloid with angled openings for function daylighting. A massive …