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Globe Building
Former Home of the Dry Dock Engine Works
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Photographs by Ivan Adelson, Sean Baxter, Jimmy Bevilacqua, Bruce Findling, Tarlton Long, Justin Mast, Ben Rambadt, Kurt Schleicher, Aaron Weller, Brenna Williams, Conor Wood
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Machine Shop
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The Foundry
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Industrial Loft
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Technical Drawings
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The Building Beginning in 1892
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Machine Shop West side of building
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The Foundry East side of building
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Chipping Room North side of building
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Shipping and Receiving South side of building
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Industrial Loft Southeast side of Building
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The Detroit Dry Dock Engine Works Recording Project is part of the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), a long-range program that documents and interprets historically-significant engineering, industrial and maritime sites, structures and vessels throughout the United States. HAER is a program within the National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. This project was co-sponsored in the summer of 2002 by the Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/ HAER) under the general direction of E. Blaine Cliver, Chief, and by the Motor Cities-Automobile National Heritage Area (ANHA) Constance C. Bodurow, AICP, Executive Director, and Arthur F. Mullen, Revitalization Programs Manager. The HAER team was hosted by the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture, Dean Stephen Vogel, FAIA, Associate Dean Stephen J. LaGrassa and the Detroit Collaborative Design Center. Drawings can be found online at: http://loc.gov/pictures/item/mi0680/
Globe Building is a documentation book assembled by students in the M.Arch graduate option architecture studio at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning under the direction of studio critic Christian Unverzagt in the Winter of 2011. The studio, titled, The Normal. is investigating the history of Detroit and its current condition relative to fifty-years of post-war American prosperity and is using a riverfront site that includes the Globe Trading Building as a laboratory for architectural proposals. All photographs were taken by the students and they remain the copyright holders of those images. The techinical drawings are reprinted here in the hope of increasing awareness of the significance of the various buildings that make up the Globe Trading Building. See the credit on the previous page for more details. http://thenormal-detroit.tumblr.com
The Normal. Grotesque. Globe Building.