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Your Internet Connection Is Unstable

The pandemic put a strain on our digital infrastructures, especially in under-served communities

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Southfield Squabble

Modernist Michigan gem threatened with significant alternations

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A SITE for Sore Eyes

Virtual SITE exhibition inserts contemporary art into Detroit’s architectural landmarks

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Motor city

Rossetti lets light into the Henry Ford Detroit Pistons Performance Center with sawtooth glazing

Motown Museum expansion
Next stop, Hitsville

Detroit’s Motown Museum teases expansion in new flyover video

A model of a Shin Shin-designed home with large acoustic padding under the porch awning
Free Victoria Parking

Shin Shin imagines radical redevelopment of abandoned Detroit homes

A swooping, leaning University of Michigan building
Jail to Grail

University of Michigan, Bedrock, and Related team up for a Detroit innovation center

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Redlining

The many lives of Detroit’s Berlin Wall

Exterior view to window wall of Magnet restaurant with neon pink lighting
A Magnet for Minimalism

UNDECORATED converts an old radiator garage in Detroit into a glowy bar-restaurant

Image of brick building from 1914 in front of tall historic hotel
Parking Over Preservation

Historic Detroit newspaper building will be razed for 12 parking spots

A dusk photo of a concrete, International Style building with elongated windows through which an exhibition can be soon.
Detroit Design

Detroit Design 139 showcases how Detroiters are reshaping their neighborhoods

Rendering of the Book Tower base, an art deco skyscraper
On Solid Bedrock

ODA tapped to transform Detroit’s historic Book Tower

An African-American man, Maurice Cox, at a podium
No Little Plans

Detroit’s planning and development director Maurice Cox is leaving for Chicago

Interior of an all-black tile room, designed by Anders Rohwald
Dark Blaze

Anders Ruhwald’s blacked-out Detroit show intertwines past, present, and future

Akoaki's heavily gilded and ornamented facade
Survive and Thrive

Akoaki is blending design disciplines in Detroit

Rendering of abstracted pink people below a lit-up cluster of canopies, a winner of the Detroit City of Design Competition
City of Design

First-ever Detroit City of Design Competition brings kinetic energy generators and a nap room

Photo of the exterior of the African Bead Museum
Stringing It Together

Lorcan O’Herlihy renovates Detroit’s African Bead Museum

Rendering of an outdoor canopy at night
Ter-rific Choice

Detroit picks team to shape Midtown cultural center