Despite the lack of mass transit in Detroit, the Rosa Parks Transit Center makes a statement.
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When Tushar Advani came to Detroit, the city's Department of
Transportation charged him with an unusual task: design a transit hub
that makes a statement. "I've never had a client come to me and say, 'I
want an iconic bus station,'" says Advani, a Boston-based architect
with the international planning and design firm
Parsons Brinckerhoff.
Clients are usually "all about function. They don't want something
that's too exciting." In Detroit, however, exciting was exactly what
the city ordered. The result is the Rosa Parks Transit Center, an
indoor/outdoor facility marked by seven graceful white canopies that
rise above the outdoor waiting area like the sails of a tall ship.
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