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Guardian Building
500 Griswold Street
Detroit MI United States
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| Status: | built | | Construction Dates | | Began | 1928 | | Finished | 1929 | | Floor Count | 40 | | Basement Floors | 3 |
|  | | Building Uses | | - office | | - conference | | - government | | - restaurant | | - retail | | Structural Types | | - highrise | | - flag | | Architectural Style | | - art deco | | - streamline moderne | | Materials | | - limestone | | - terra cotta | | - brick |
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| | Heights | | Value | | Source / Comments | | | | Flagpole | | 632 ft | | Building Manager | | | height to tip of flagpole | | | | | Roof | | 495 ft | | Building Manager | | | height to penthouses (4.11m above roof) | | | | | South tower roof | | 433 ft | | Building Manager | | | includes parapet + penthouse (2.94m above roof) | | | | | Main roof | | 401 ft | | Building Manager | | | includes parapet (1.33m above roof) | | |
Description
- Architect: Smith, Hinchman, & Grylls (SmithGroup)
- This is one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in the world.
- Dubbed a "Cathedral of Commerce" the building has two turrets towers on either end, and a nave-like connector. The theme is continued in the interior with a vaulted, cathedral-like banking hall on the ground floor.
- The building incorporates Native American motiffs on it's facade and the interior.
- A specially formulated brick, Guardian Brick, was used to clad this tower. It in turn is decorated with colored terra cotta, glazed ceramic tile, and different metals.
- A banquet hall/conference room lies on the 32nd floors of this building, and the boardroom lies on the 6th floor.
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