One Woodward Avenue is a high-rise building in Detroit, Michigan. It overlooks Hart Plaza, Cobo Hall, and the Detroit River. It contains 29 stories (28 floors with one basement level), and reaches a height of 430 feet (131 m). It is connected directly to the Guardian Building by an enclosed walkway over W. Larned Street.

Architect Minoru Yamasaki designed One Woodward Avenue. His first skyscraper, he used it to formulate his design for the now-destroyed World Trade Center in New York City. His design for McGregor Memorial Conference Center at Wayne State University is also highly regarded by architects. Yamasaki commissioned Giacomo Manzù, an Italian sculptor with important liturgical commissions in St. Peter's in Rome, to craft Detroit'sPasso di Danza (step of dance) at the One Woodward Avenue building.

At night, the large "cube" at the top is lit up with large floodlights, color-coded with seasonal events. Near Christmas, it is lit green, red, and white; in the summer, around the U.S. Independence Day and Canada Day, it is red, white and blue; and it is silver-gold prior to the U.S. Thanksgiving celebration in November.

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Image:One Woodward upwards.jpg|View from Jefferson Avenue.Image:One Woodward bldg connecting skyway.jpg|Skywalk connects to the Guardian BuildingImage:One Woodward Building lobby sculpture Detroit.jpg|Giacomo Manzù sculpture is placed within the garden.

Notes

References

• Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Architectural Sculpture of America, unpublished manuscript

External links

• Google Maps Location of One Woodward Avenue
• One Woodward Avenue at Emporis.com
• SkyscraperPage.com's Profile on One Woodward Avenue