Woah, woah, slow down. It's a coffered ceiling. It was originally designed this way. It just needs some paint touch ups.
http://www.google.com/search?gcx=w&q...=1809&bih=1015
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Woah, woah, slow down. It's a coffered ceiling. It was originally designed this way. It just needs some paint touch ups.
http://www.google.com/search?gcx=w&q...=1809&bih=1015
Anyone attend the open house today? More importantly, anyone get pics?
Oh man, that shot up north Woodward looks AWESOME! Too bad the cityscape in the foreground looks pretty depressing. Great views and nice pictures all around though. :D
I just added several photos from the preview tour…follow the link below to get to the album:
http://woodwardspine.com/2011/11/05/2533/
Feel free to like The Woodward Spine on Facebook as well and if anyone wants pictures of a specific building or area of Detroit please let us know. I will add them to the list for next time.
Great photos! I did the tour yesterday too. Loved it! We heard that they had nearly 700 people through yesterday. They expected 500. My husband chickened out and wouldn't go up on the construction elevator. While I was upstairs he was talking to Beal people. One told him that Ilitch bought the penthouse. But another Beal person told me and others that they can only lease, can't sell, for 7 years due to the financing requirements. Most likely the tax credits.
Did the tour. Pretty impressive. However, for the two bedroom units in my price range I would be looking at the back side of the Wurlitzer and Metropolitan. Not very pretty. Looks as if we will be staying in the Kales.
BTW, I got into it with some of those fools camping out in the park....I told them I couldn't wait till they leave.....there were other things said but I must respect the virgin ears on this site.;)
Crains article says they will leave the whales on the building but continue to sell ads on top after the building is open. Tacky, tacky.
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...-the-broderick
I get that they can put an add there but it will have to be smaller. Each one they have added covered the windows.
I'd be pretty mad paying rent to have my windows blocked...haha...
Whales should be Free. Just sayin'.
Pretty depressing?? That can be mended pretty easy. I see some graffiti on one of the walls. This could be a new cavas for one of those classic ads you sometimes still see on walls downtown. Would be nice to see a now defunct name reappear there like Hudson's department advertizing, in like, 1900's font.
Something like this.
TACKY???
Apparently some of you haven't actually looked at the Shorpy's pictures of Detroit in the olden days... where no matter where you looked there were ads all over the downtown area.
Any signage that goes over the Wales will NOT cover up the views of the windows at the edge of the murals. There's enough space to do signage without covering the entire wall.
And if it earns the building owner some extra bucks... more power to him... just look what GM did to the Ren Cen....
Parts of the mural would still show if the windows were not covered...that was my point.
Depending on the color of the ad it may look very interesting with the brick color, the mural color and then the add color.
I'd be cool if they would get rid of the whale and open that side up with windows. Wishful thinking on my part.
Throw those motherfuckers out. ;) I was not aware that the elevators were on that side of the building. I was under the impression that they're in the center of the building. That said, perhaps they can do something more appealing on the aesthetics art side instead of having the whales there.
While I'm no fan of the whales, they're not that bad. But ads do bring in the revenue.
Perhaps a string of ads that appear hanging one from another on a set of chains would make for a nice attraction incorporating "trompe l'oeil" [[fool the eye) would be cool... generate revenue as well as interest...
Here's a really crazy architectural painted mural on a building in Paris... better than whales IMHO....
http://craftlineup.blogspot.com/2010/08/trompe-loeil-architecture.html
There could be all sorts of possibilities, such as the illusion of vines running up the building between the ads, etc.