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Originally Posted by animatedmartian

The massing doesn't really fill the site like Staler did, but it has nice height and hotel at least faces GCP. There is a podium but would the hotel be better if it lined the streetwall of GCP?



http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...hilton-site-in

It's hard to imagine what this might look like with such a rudimentary sketch-up. The site plan with its weird three-pronged massing looks like a misshapen plug for a 220v outlet.

I know it's early, but they didn't even get the orientation of the two larger (orange) towers correct. Half of the upper left tower faces an existing building. And at least if it were to be oriented along Washington, the street wall would be much more attractive than the parking garage.

Couldn't this be a liner building with parking in the center? I'd rather see a uniform structure on this block with the parking completely hidden. This looks like a 3rd grader put it together.

Hopefully those in charge of the site aren't so desperate as to not have some design input.