Comerica Tower
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| Location | 500 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, USA |
| Status | Complete |
| Constructed | 1991-1993 |
| Use | office |
| Height | |
| Antenna/Spire | 188.7 m (619.0 ft) |
| Roof | 184.9 m (606.5 ft) |
| Top floor | 176.2 m (578.1 ft) |
| Technical Details | |
| Floor count | 43 (+2 underground) |
| Floor area | 155,585.5 m² (1,674,708 ft²) |
| Elevator count | 22 |
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| Architect | Phillip Johnson/John Burgee |
Comerica Tower (formerly known as One Detroit Center), and officially known as Comerica Tower at Detroit Center, is a skyscraper in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Rising 619 feet (189 m), the 43-story tower is the tallest office building in Michigan, and the second tallest overall in the state behind the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center, located a few blocks away. Although the Penobscot Building has more floors than Comerica Tower (45 above-ground floors compared to Comerica Tower's 43), Comerica's floors and spires are taller, with its roof sitting roughly 60 feet taller than Penobscot's.
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[edit] Architecture
The building was designed by noted achitects John Burgee & Phillip Johnson, partners influentual in postmodern architecture. Comerica Tower 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 now houses the world headquarters of Comerica, which has purchased its naming rights. 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 neogothic 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).
[edit] Trivia
- 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.
- Comerica Tower won the Award of Excellence for its design in 1996.
[edit] See also
- Robert Sharoff (2005). American City: Detroit Architecture 1845-2005 Wayne State University Press.
[edit] External links
- Official Website for Comerica Tower
- 500 Woodward Avenue - Comerica Tower's Website
- Google Maps location of Comerica Tower (One Detroit Center)
- Comerica Tower at Emporis.com
- SkyscraperPage.com's Profile on Comerica Tower
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