Tired & Retired: Detroit’s Abandoned Arnold Home
The state-of-the-art Arnold Home helped ease generations of retired Detroiters off this mortal coil before changing demographics dulled its once-cutting edge. Hasta la Vista, Granny The ...
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Michigan Central Station: Ford & Snohetta to Revive Abandoned Detroit Icon
Driving into Motor City, the beautiful and towering 18-story Michigan Central Station is hard to miss -- it is both a Beaux-Arts Classical landmark (standing out even in a city rich with ...
Evolution of Decay: Watch American Buildings Fall Into Ruin Over 40+ Years
Architecture that was at its prime in the 1970s has slowly fallen into decline and often ruin thanks to decades of neglect, especially in America’s poorest and most racially segregated ...
Detroit Agate: Auto Factory Paints Accidentally Form ‘Fordite’
Culled from paint deposits in old car factories, these may look like exotic gemstones, but their colors reflect years of layering and hundreds to thousands of assembly-line stops. They are ...
Doom & Bloom: 36,000 Flowers Adorn Condemned Detroit Duplex
Bought at auction by a florist last year, this dilapidated multifamily home was destined to be demolished but given a last chance to blossom thanks to a team of florists and array of volunteers ...
Bracket All the Things: Reclaimed-Surface Tables & Shelves
What started as a set of infinitely-flexible table legs has now spawned a second but equally stellar sibling design: a series of wall brackets that let you turn scraps into shelving and switch ...
Decaying Detroit: Google Street View Shows Change Over Time
The dark architectural equivalent of 'Faces of Meth,' these compiled Google Street View images of Detroit from 2009 through 2013 paint a poignant portrait of decay in the city. Entitled ...
7 Abandoned Wonders of Residential Architecture
Palatial chateaus, ordinary suburban homes, skyscraper residences and vertical slums alike have been abandoned by their human inhabitants and given over to rot and ruin. Whether they represent ...
Then & Now: Hybrid Images of a Deserted School in Detroit
It is one thing to see a building in a state of disrepair and imagine what it would have been like when it was occupied and vibrant. It is quite another to overlay a photograph, taken from the ...
Grandeur Lost: The Modern Ruins of Abandoned Detroit
Detroit is arguably one of the most fascinating modern cities in the world. This is thanks to the city's unique balance between its former identity as a manufacturing mecca and its current state ...
