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I'm not big on exposing brick in historic homes just for the heck of it either, but here I think it makes sense, since basically everything historic is gone except for those brick walls. It's a...

I don't know much about the church other than the short, squared off tower facing Woodward was once rounded. You can find this in historic photographs. It was cut off during the widening of...

At the very least the Metropolitan Building lot would make a horrible spot for a parking deck, so he must at least have some sort of occupied use planned for this spot.

...Unless of course he...

Occurrence, this was seven years ago now, but my understanding of the events around the Madison Lenox is this:

Illitch applied for a demolition permit.
It was denied by the HDC.
One morning...

Even here in Chicago, the grocery stores all pretty much have parking. The independent grocer at the end of the block has a parking lot in the rear [[it's in a building built in the 1910s or 20s),...

It's interesting that this discussion is taking place just as our Santa Fe Building, where I work here in Chicago, is potentially about to be renamed the Motorola Building [[which to me seems hardly...

Does it bother anyone else that the gables in the parapet wall aren't quite centered over the windows below?

With the dual gables and little half-round details, it seems they may have been making a conscious reference to the old firehouse. Kudos to the designers if they were. It's looking good, though the...

I not 100% sure, but I think that is a much older building with a modern facade. The thickness of the piers between the windows [[as seen through the windows of Washington in that picture) certainly...

I'd be more concerned about burning PVC and other plastics [[vinyl siding, etc.).

I think what you are referring to is actually before the building was sold to Olympia / Ilitch. I believe the city owned the building, but was not able to do anything to it without permission from...

Okay, from an integrity standpoint, painting the brick could be bad for it's longevity. But from an aesthetics standpoint I think we could make an exception here. The brick that is visible at the...

I'm thinking that the exposed brick at the top of the building should be painted. Now that the building has been cleaned, it's so much darker than the rest of the finished materials.

At one point...

Mike, I reread the "Michigan Architect and Engineer" record, and the mercantile is actually cited as 5 stories. The type is really bad, but when I zoom way in, it is definitely a 5. [[edit: Brock...

I'm no car expert, but based on them and the architecture, I would say this was the 1930s, maybe the late 1920s

If the church was never built [[at least as designed), the two story storefront is really the only location clue. Too bad it's probably gone today.

Based on the perspective, I would say that the...

I seem to remember that a lot of meters simply say "hours enforced shown on sign," or something to that effect. So the city doesn't even have to change all of the meters.

Which, every time that I...

I agree about the loss of formality. I think that the grand boulevard leading to the station is extremely important to the way that Michigan Central is interpreted. The park supports the station;...

For the building to look right [[i.e. not a 60s building with a classical cornice), I think some of the other horizontal lines and the conjoined upper stories would need to be recreated - at the very...

I did some quick google measuring and calculations. Even with the light court excluded, David Whitney has 3 times the footprint of Broderick. Making the Whitney roughly 300,000sqft to Brodericks...