  Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 1324 Registered: 09-2007 |
Since you all blew out the original Quicken thread, let's start another one basically about where they may choose to locate their headquarters downtown and why. Yes, it is another dream thread like the one you guys blew up.  | ||
Mortgageking Member Username: Mortgageking Post Number: 13 Registered: 12-2006 |
Great idea Detroitrise!••••• Let's rehash the entire thread. Complete with Quiggen drawings and baseless speculation. I'll start. I've heard from reliable street prophets that Quicken is going to announce their intention to build on the Statler site this coming Wednesday during the Cadillac Square announcement. | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 4750 Registered: 10-2004 |
Damn you, MK! You ruined my big secret revelation. Now, I got to make up something else... | ||
Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313 Post Number: 594 Registered: 02-2006 |
BUMP! <313> | ||
Rbdetsport Member Username: Rbdetsport Post Number: 438 Registered: 11-2005 |
Ahhh... the Quicken threads... this thread brings back some good memories... lol | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 6075 Registered: 08-2004 |
No Quicken/Qwiggen thread is worth a hill-o-beans without Quinn's picture, which contrary to what he says (that he produced it via Photoshop)... was actually secretly obtained from a Quicken employee....  | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 4756 Registered: 10-2004 |
Except for the wishful thinkers (e.g., those directly in the industry and directly affected), the construction and mortgage industries aren't expected to return to their 2006 levels until 2011 or later. If so, don't expect rosy-pink scenarios to happen in the Metro area and, especially, the city until then either. | ||
Kslice Member Username: Kslice Post Number: 257 Registered: 04-2007 |
A show of hands (posts). Who would not like the fake building in the picture to be built? | ||
Genesyxx Member Username: Genesyxx Post Number: 837 Registered: 02-2004 |
(raises hand) Looks so omnious. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 4421 Registered: 10-2003 |
Shouldn't it look like this instead?  | ||
Fishtoes2000 Member Username: Fishtoes2000 Post Number: 377 Registered: 06-2005 |
That's funny, Johnlodge. The same thought had crossed my mind. With the widespread access to aerial photography via Google Maps and others, why wouldn't one take advantage of the free advertising/notoriety? | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 4423 Registered: 10-2003 |
You mean like this enormous Col. Sanders? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2 006/11/17/colonel_sanders_mosa ic/ | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 6085 Registered: 08-2004 |
Genesyxx... don't we have an "Omnious" hotel in Detroit? | ||
Thegryphon Member Username: Thegryphon Post Number: 17 Registered: 11-2007 |
I think it looks sweet. Reminds me of something out of Superman's Metropolis (EG the Daily Planet) | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 2197 Registered: 10-2006 |
"I think it looks sweet." It's not the 1920s anymore people!! Detroit needs to do more to get itself out of the 'neo-stoneage' of architecture... | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 1354 Registered: 09-2007 |
Ok, then I'd say it's time to demo the Penobscot, Book (Cadillac and Tower), United Artist, Opera House, Tiger Stadium, Guardian, Fisher, GM, etc. buildings nad make way for glassy, shiny skyscrapers! | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 2200 Registered: 10-2006 |
"Ok, then I'd say it's time to demo the Penobscot, Book (Cadillac and Tower), United Artist, Opera House, Tiger Stadium, Guardian, Fisher, GM, etc. buildings nad make way for glassy, shiny skyscrapers!" It is how those buildings got there in the first place--something had to go that was there before. There is however much less demand for land in Detroit today than there was 60+ years ago, so might as well fill the vacant locales first. P.S. And all of those buildings are fine examples of their era, but it is 2007!! | ||
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox Post Number: 475 Registered: 04-2006 |
quote:Why? | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 6088 Registered: 08-2004 |
Charlottepaul... that building was built in NYC in the 1980's or so. It's Post Modern, not 1920's. Although I like the "edgy" design of the Cadillac Centre on the Monroe Block, I would prefer something more Post Modern on the Statler site. Otherwise it would stick out like a sore thumb with all the other buildings being early 20th century. Grand Circus Park is a classic design, and I don't think something edgy would fit in as well as it does on Campus Martius, where many of the buildings bordering it are modern. Not everything new built in the future in Detroit needs to be cutting edge! Remember cutting edge usually means maintenance nightmare... just ask the folks at Harvard that are suing Frank Gehry! | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 1355 Registered: 09-2007 |
Now, I think the Federal or Judicial/Greektown districts will be best for anything glossy (many of the towers in these areas are 1970s). | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 6089 Registered: 08-2004 |
Although there is a lot of good architecture in the modern movement, there is also a LOT of bad architecture. Prince Charles of England, an armchair architect like many of us here, perhaps said it best when complaining why modern architects tend to "throw away" all the architectural traditions of the past... "The fashionable architectural theories of the 50s and 60s, so slavishly followed by those who wanted to be considered "with it", have spawned deformed monsters which have come to haunt our cities... as a result of 40 years of experimenting with revolutionary building materials and novel ideas, burning all the rule books and purveying the theory that man is a machine, we have ended up with Frankenstein monsters, devoid of character, alien and largely unloved, except by the professors and their students who have been concocting these horrors in their laboratories..." It seems a might presumptuous to assume that all modern architecture has to throw away 2,500 years of architectural tradition, which has been respected rather than reviled by architects of old, just because architectural professors and their students today say so! That is why I like Post Modern architecture. It respects the past architectural tradition, rather than denounces it like much new architecture today. | ||
Warrenite84 Member Username: Warrenite84 Post Number: 203 Registered: 01-2007 |
I agree Gistok. I'd rather have a building design respectful of the past, say with a few setbacks, than a building better situated in a Dr. Seuss book. Whatever buildings we get in Detroit's future, I hope they all have a lasting allure. |
