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Reimagined Without Restraint

PLY+ transforms a neighborhood landmark into an experimental school in collaboration with the University of Michigan’s School of Education

Motor City Thrives

Detroit Design Month celebrates Motown’s creative community with installations, activations, and happenings

New Tricks

Brooklyn-based CIVILIAN completes its biggest project yet, for Newlab Detroit

Building a Chair, Reframing a City

Architects imagine the collective rebuilding of Detroit through a design-build workshop

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Not Skipping Leg Day

LIFTbuild’s novel floor-lifting technology turns construction sites into fabrication factories

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Chucking the Seed

Julie Bargmann embraces the urban wilds of Detroit with PARK(ing), designed for Prince Concepts

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Read This (And Then Get to the Polls)

Daily digest: RIOS announces launch of London office, fare collection resumes on the Detroit People Mover, and more

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In Limbo

Daily digest: Florence’s Ponte Vecchio bridge undergoes first restoration in 677 years, plans for San Francisco’s $1.7 million toilet halted, and more

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Razing the Ruins

Demolition work begins on Albert Kahn’s Packard Plant, a hulking relic of Detroit’s automotive glory days

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Motor City Art Ensemble

Design Core Detroit showcases the city’s capacity for 21st century design innovation and community building

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Wax On, Wax Off

Daily digest: Giant slide reopens at Detroit’s Belle Isle after bruising debut, gateway design at Marsha P. Johnson Park revealed, and more

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Making A Splash

Landscape and pool restoration project unveiled at historic Ford estate north of Detroit

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Motor City Remake

Underused park at the foot of Detroit’s transformed Michigan Central Station is getting a $6 million makeover

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Something Old, Something Zoo

Michigan seeks public input for revitalization of Detroit’s long-abandoned Belle Isle Zoo

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Rock Steady

New renderings revealed for SHoP’s downtown Detroit megadevelopment

Freshly Baked Plans

OMA and Library Street Collective reveal plans for sprawling art space at erstwhile commercial bakery in Detroit

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Aria Building

Daily digest: Heatherwick Studio debuts a “tropical opera house,” a fund for rehabilitating Ukrainian heritage sites, and more

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Great Recs

Detroit is investing $45 million to renovate aging recreational centers and build new ones

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