Columnist John Gallagher puts the striking design for Cadillac Centre into context, citing the contributions that world-famous architects have had on Detroit's landscape since the mid-19th Century.
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My view is that Detroit has been reinventing itself from the beginning.
When Lloyd settled here in the mid-19th Century, Detroit was a
provincial town evolving into a Midwest city. When Kahn served as Henry
Ford's architect in the early 20th Century, Detroit was flexing its
automotive muscles and required new thinking for a new age.
When Eero Saarinen designed the great GM Tech Center, which became the
world's first modern office park, Detroit was bursting with post-World
War II energy and creativity.
And when Austrian-born Victor Gruen designed Northland Center, the
first modern shopping mall, in Southfield in 1954, metro Detroit was
just beginning its explosive suburban expansion.
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