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The Fisher Building is a landmark skyscraper located at 3011 West Grand Boulevard in the heart of the New Center area of Detroit, Michigan. The ornate 30-story building, completed in 1928, is one of the major works of architect Albert Kahn, and is designed in an Art Deco style, faced with limestone, granite, and several types of marble.
The Fisher Building is 20-story, 275-foot-tall (84 m) neo-Gothic landmark building located at 343 South Dearborn Street in the Chicago Loop community area of Chicago.
16 lip 2023 · The building known as “Detroit’s largest art object" has been dropping jaws in New Center for more than 90 years. The Fisher -- built by the Fisher brothers of “Body by Fisher" fame -- opened in September 1928, at Second Avenue and Grand Boulevard.
17 mar 2003 · The Fisher Building is being erected on Dearborn and Van Buren streets and Plymouth place for L. G. Fisher. The building is twenty stories and basement high and its cost when completed is estimated at $615,000.
While in Detroit, I got to visit the Fisher Building. It is a beautifully made skyscraper on the outside. However, the inside is even more impressive. The artwork and marble is exquisite. The building is home to the Fisher theater, various shops, and offices. Go check it out!!
The Fisher Building is an Art Deco masterpiece with a 28-story marble and granite tower and two 11-story wings. William and Alfred Fisher founded the Fisher Body Company and were early developers of the closed automobile.
The soaring Fisher Building exterior bears a striking resemblance to Eliel Saarinen's Chicago Tribune Tower design of 1922. Kahn begins with an arcaded basement unit similar to the one he used in the earlier General Motors Building.
