The Challenges of Adaptive Reuse: Charlotte’s Camp North End Remains a Work in Progress

The Fisher Building has been characterized in many ways over the past century, but one title has endured above all: “Detroit’s largest art object.” Its gleaming marble arcades, gilded ceilings and monumental form continue to captivate visitors and scholars alike. Yet even a building this celebrated still holds surprises, like…

One of Detroit’s newest preservation success stories stands on the shoulders of some of the city’s most consequential innovators. The former Cadillac Motor Company assembly plant on Amsterdam Street was designed in 1905 by architect George D. Mason in collaboration with engineer Julius Kahn, whose pioneering Kahn Bar reinforcement system…

For more than a century, Ford Motor Company has expressed its identity not only through the vehicles it builds, but through the buildings that shaped its culture, its leadership and its global ambitions. No architect influenced that story more profoundly than Albert Kahn. His revolutionary industrial designs — from the…

WDET’s “The Metro” recently reported on Albert Kahn’s little-known role as a humanitarian when he aided and sponsored a Swiss-Jewish family fleeing war torn Europe and Nazi aggression during WWII. Tia Graham, host of The Metro, interviewed Foundation board member Nancy Finegood about the discovery that her grandparents and mother…

By John Gallagher – For the Albert Kahn Legacy Foundation. Albert Kahn was still a young man when he designed Detroit’s historic Packard Plant at the dawn of the 20th century. The sprawling industrial site that emerged from Kahn’s drawing table did more than establish Kahn as an architect of…