This photo essay in TIME, The Remains of Detroit, is haunting. This photo is of the Michigan Central Station, designed by the same architects that did the still vibrant Grand Central Terminal in NYC. It is anything but vibrant, being vacant for 20 years.
In the film Blade Runner, much of "future" Los Angeles is like this: deserted, decrepit, waterlogged. Perhaps Detroit is the future, sad.
Opened in 1913, the terminal was designed by the architects Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stern, the same firm that designed New York City's Grand Central Terminal. "It's staggering," says Hemmerle, "that such a phenomenal piece of architecture could stand empty for twenty years."
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