American Natural Resources Company Building, Michigan Consolidated Gas Company Office Building
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One Woodward (American Natural Resources Company Building, Michigan Consolidated Gas Company Office Building)
1962, Minoru Yamasaki. 1 Woodward Ave.
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(Kathryn Bishop Eckert)
This graceful, elegant work was designed by Yamasaki (1912–1986) to house all the administrative offices of the gas company in one location. It created a strong corporate identity and further affirmed the development of the civic center area. The thirty-two-story tower on a podium, with reflecting pools (later converted to flower beds) and landscaping, employs white marble, precast-concrete panels, and lacy vertical grillework in an otherwise Miesian format.
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Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "One Woodward (American Natural Resources Company Building, Michigan Consolidated Gas Company Office Building)", [Detroit, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-WN11.
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Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 60-60.
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