Unbuilt Detroit Sketchup Models

Seeing as there have been many "Unbuilt Detroit" threads in the past, but never one in this topic that pertains to Sketchup models, so here it is.

I guarantee you that this will never achieve 100% accuracy!

Original plans for One Detroit Center:
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=ud1f87fae-e726-4105-9e09-45ddc5cc27eb

The 81-story Book Tower:
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/mod...2-42e6ea99b11b

If you want me to create a model of anything Unbuilt Detroit, go ahead. If you have models of your own of a Detroit building that never saw the light of day, feel free to post them here too.

When time permits, I may even show off a version of the Unbuilt Detroit skyline generated in a program called "Cityscape 1.8," though finding a download link for that program is very difficult, as it appears that it has been discontinued and the company that made that has been acquired.

Ooh ooh...how about the original Fisher Building, with all three towers....

1953

Very nice. I want to put a vote in for the Book Needle.

the additional ren cen towers should be easy enough to add...how about the second pontchartrain hotel tower?

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Originally Posted by southen

Very nice. I want to put a vote in for the Book Needle.

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Ask and you shall receive.

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/mod...2-42e6ea99b11b

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Originally Posted by mtburb

If you want me to create a model of anything Unbuilt Detroit, go ahead.

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Do you still say you had nothing to do with those hack models of riots intended to discredit black lives matter, and you promoted here?

Perhaps a few unbuilt expressways? Possibly an elevated highway model down Davidson from 96 to 10

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Originally Posted by MicrosoftFan

Possibly an elevated highway model down Davidson from 96 to 10

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Working on that in that Cityscape Demo program right now, but it won't be elevated.

Here's a list from Curbed Detroit that has 10 developments that were never built. Specifically, the Comerica Bank Tower Headquarters and Kern Block Tower.

http://detroit.curbed.com/archives/2...o-building.php

A C. Howard Crane design for a permanent exhibition building.

A Malcomson, Higginbotham & Trout design for an observatory at U of D.

And here it is, an unbuilt Davison extension looking east from LaSalle. Those ramps at the bottom are for the Linwood interchange. The neighborhood doesn't look that empty in real life, of course.
http://i.imgur.com/bwz1ZD5.png

One of several proposals for the Roosevelt group of schools drawn by Malcomson, Higginbotham & Palmer.

Albert Kahn and Donaldson & Meier's renderings for the Roosevelt School group.

Proposed Gratiot-Orleans project.

A Suren Pilafian proposal

Proposed Wayne State University Student Center.

Proposal for Wayne State University's Campus.

I have been looking for this article for awhile, and finally found where I stored it. Long before the debates on the old City Hall in the 1950's there were proposals to replace the original building.

I've been around long enough [[and so has everyone else) to see enough recent renderings that were obviously not for real. Sadly looking back at these historical ones I know that most of those are BS too.

The headline on that City Hall story above misspells the name of the site, which was Grindley Field, the former athletic field of the DAC, which was the big block bounded by Woodward, Forest, Cass, and Canfield. Instead of this city hall complex, Convention Hall was built there in the early '20s.

Here is an earlier thread about another interesting structure that once stood on that site, with some information I posted about the site's history.
http://www.detroityes.com/mb/showthr...e-Where-was-it