Sunday, January 24, 2010

Rosa Parks Bus Detroit Depot



This tensegrity structure has the robust beauty and delicate curves of a lily or an orchid.

The the free-standing piers of the concrete anchors twist in a post-cubist fashion like Italian futurist sculptures. Other groupings of concrete bases are linked together with back rests transforming the structural necessity into passenger amenity.

There is a striking open, processional stair to a mezzanine in the interior of the main building.

The tensegrity tent structures are arrayed in a regular grid with stabilizing struts on the outside ends.

Friday, January 8, 2010

Kales Building







The Kales Building in down town Detroit is now home to luxury condominiums.