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8:31 PM on July 18, 2008
By Steve VanBrussel
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Downtown

Comerica Tower

One Detroit Centeraddress:
500 Woodward Avenue

data:
Year Built: 1991 - 1993
Architect: John Burgee & Phillip Johnson
Style: Modern

history:
Formerly known as the One Detroit Center, the Comerica Tower was the last great skyscraper built in Detroit. While some have branded it postmodern, it is more appropriately identified as historicist with gothic inspired detailing and extensive use of granite.

Almost as if creating an entry portal for an enormous modern gothic church, a twin tower dubbed Two Detroit Center was proposed to be built directly east of the tower when the One Detroit Center was proposed, but a soft office market killed the plans, and Two Detroit Center was put on hold, indefinitely; a fate well known to the Fisher brothers. A parking deck now sits on the planned site.

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