[Enlarge] [Purchase] (c) Joseph Flis

 

Identification
Official name	UAW-Ford National Programs Center
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Emporis Building Number	118503
Location
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Bordering street	West Jefferson Avenue*
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Complex	Hart Plaza
Neighborhood	Downtown
City	Detroit
State	Michigan
Country	U.S.A.

 

Technical Data
Height (tip) * Height (struct.) 41 m 135 ft Height (roof) * Height (main roof) * Floors (OG) 10 Floors (UG) * Construction start * Construction end 1948 Last reconstruction * GFA * Work places *

 

Building in General
Type of construction	high-rise building
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Architectural style	*
Status	completed

Facts

-	Typical of the International Style, the walls and glass windows of the marble-faced former Veterans Memorial Hall are held on the same plane. The roof is flat.
-	On the narrow northwest wall, a 30-foot high eagle sculpture carved in relief over a commemorative inscription adds to the meaning of this building as a memorial to war dead.
-	The building includes a 450-seat theater-styled conference center, and a 200-seat lecture hall both on the ground floor.
-	The building contains two lobbies, one at the back of the building along Hart Plaza, and one on the second floor at the Jefferson Avenue entrance.
-	This building's renovation started in January of 1995, and the building was finished and rededicated October 1st of 1997.
-	The elevation change between the front and back entrances of the building is 22'-11".
-	The parapet that rises around the main roof deck rises to a height of 4'-3".
-	The Veterans Memorial Building was dedicated on June 11, 1950.

Companies involved in this Building*

architect: Harley, Ellington & Day Other firms: Isamu Noguchi .

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