Quote Originally Posted by WaCoTS View Post
i would have to have the Old Wayne County Blg in that top 3 list somewhere [[and you would have to exclude theatres from the list, otherwise it would be all theaters).

having not seen the interior of this bank, i dont know how to rank it, but if it's anything at all like old Pennsy Station in NYC, then it is easily amongst the top 3 as well.


solution to this problem:
mass transit and underground parking. no further discussion required.

as already mentioned, the blank scar tissue where Hudson's used to be--it's time to actually use that for something. it is an underground garage already, with obvious provisions for building upward. why not make it the world's tallest parking garage, and the tallest building in Detroit? why not make it a dadaistic statement about our fetish with the automobile and a monument to Detroit's insanity? a 100-story parking garage casting a long shadow over the RenCen--now THAT would be something...almost North Korean... LOL then with those huuuuge sides, you could plaster MetroPCS and MGM Grand billboards all down the sides of it. 'MERICA!!

In a sense, the MCS is a monument to that insanity in the mass transit depletion category. You are right about the dadaist statement because that in real terms is a missing piece of the Detroit puzzle. Detroit seems to negate its past in many ways, choosing not to confront its demons in the racial, automotive, and sprawl departments. If a bit of humor, not a fist or a Robocop, but a monument to the folly you describe were to happen; who knows what direction the city would take. Might be a healing thing.