Phillip Johnson - Comerica Tower - Detroit MI USA
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The Comerica tower is a 43 story tall skyscraper in Downtown Detroit.
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Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 01/17/2008
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The Comerica Tower is located on Woodward Avenue, which is in the heart of Detroit's financial district. The Comerica Tower served as the world headquarters for Comerica Bank. It was completed in 1993. It is 43-stories tall and is the second tallest building in Michigan.
Wikipedia states of it's architecture:
"The building was designed by noted achitects John Burgee & Philip Johnson, partners influentual in postmodern architecture. One Detroit Center was constructed from 1991 to 1993. To form a stylistic link to the past, it was designed in a historicist fashion, with Flemish-inspired spires. Visitors to Detroit are often surprised to learn of the building's young age. It houses numerous other tenants, including many prominent Detroit law firms, and other banks. Some, however, have expressed concern over the building's lack of exterior lighting at night, in contrast to the easily identifiable orb of the nearby Penobscot Building. In addition to retail, the building also contains a restaurant.
The building is famous for its neo-gothic architecture blended with postmodern architectural design; it uses a large amount of granite. It is sometimes called a "twin gothic structure", for its pairs of spires, oriented North-South and East-West (as named on a plaque along the Windsor waterfront park).
One Detroit Center won the Award of Excellence for its design in 1996."