One Woodward Avenue

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One Woodward Avenue
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Location	Detroit, USA
Status	Complete
Constructed	1962
Use	office
Floor count	26
Companies
Architect	Minoru Yamasaki SmithGroup

It overlooks Hart Plaza, Cobo Hall, and the Detroit River. It is connected directly to the Guardian Building by an enclosed walkway over W. Larned Street. Architect Minoru Yamasaki designed One Woodward Avenue. His design for McGregor Memorial Conference Center at Wayne State University is also highly regarded by architects. ^[1] Yamasaki commissioned Giacomo Manzù, an Italian sculptor with important liturgical commissions in St. Peter's in Rome, to craft Detroit's Passo di Danza (step of dance) at the One Woodward Avenue building.^[2]

One Woodward Avenue (1962) contains 29 stories (28 floors with one basement level), and reaches a height of 430 feet (131 m). Minoru Yamasaki used it to formulate his design for the now-destroyed World Trade Center in New York City.

At night, the large "cube" at the top is lit up with large floodlights, color-coded with seasonal events. Near Christmas, it is lit green, red, and white; in the summer, around the U.S. Independence Day and Canada Day, it is red, white and blue; and it is silver-gold prior to the U.S. Thanksgiving celebration in November.

[edit] Photo gallery

View from Fort Street.

Skywalk connects to the Guardian Building

Giacomo Manzù sculpture is placed within the garden.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ AIA Detroit Urban Priorities Committee, (1-10-2006).Top 10 Detroit InteriorsModel D Media
2. ^ Zacharias, Pat (compiled). Monuments of Detroit Rearview Mirror, Detroit News. Retrieved on June 14, 2007.

[edit] References

• Hill, Eric J. and John Gallagher (2002). AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3120-3. 
• Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Architectural Sculpture of America, unpublished manuscript
• Meyer, Katherine Mattingly and Martin C.P. McElroy with Introduction by W. Hawkins Ferry, Hon A.I.A. (1980). Detroit Architecture A.I.A. Guide Revised Edition. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1651-4. 
• Sharoff, Robert (2005). American City: Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3270-6. 

[edit] External links

• Google Maps Location of One Woodward Avenue
• One Woodward Avenue at Emporis.com
• SkyscraperPage.com's Profile on One Woodward Avenue

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