On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > While shooting virtual tours for real estate, I sometimes come across > unusual buildings. I shot tours at a building in downtown Detroit the other > day that surprised me. Built in 1957, it struck me as having been well ahead > of its time. The architectural style looked familiar, so I checked when I > got home and discovered that it was designed by Mies van der Rohe and is on > the National Register of Historic Places. The exterior of the 20 story > apartment building is mostly windows, framed in metal. The lobby is all > black marble. It's in excellent condition and 95% occupied. The building is > situated at the eastern edge of downtown, and its framed by a nice little > park. The attached pic is the view from a 15th floor apartment. You can see > the GM building (formerly the Renaissance Center and quite possibly soon to > be something else) at the far left. Ford Field, the domed stadium, is at the > far right. The shot is a composite of three frames from the pano I shot in > this apartment. They're 16mm verticals, f13 @ about 1/4 second, ISO 200. > Click to make it larger: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9074706
Love Mies van der Rohe! He's my favourite of the modernists. Lovely shot, Paul. The light on the interior is wonderful. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
