Dwell Magazine, who has been here before to check out Lafayette Park's
Mies van der Rohe development, returns to talk to Design 99 and where Detroit design could go.
Excerpt:
The first Power house Project location is an architectural
manifesto-in-progress, with fresh paint, new landscaping, and an attic
camera obscura the latest additions. (Their status as urban-art
homesteaders – and their feelings about being newly minted media
darlings – is described on Detroit's
Model D blog.)
Spectators to all this interest in Detroit as smoldering metaphor and
tabula rasa are the rest of Detroit's one million residents, who may
have an opinion or two about outsiders' views of their city. In his
Times
article, Barlow mentions that some German artists are thinking of
relocating to Detroit to build a giant, two-story beehive; as hopeful
as all these stories are, when Germans pick your town to build their
beehive, you know there's nowhere to go but up.
Read the entire article
here.
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