a2view december 15, 2022
…school. The Central Campus Recreation Building closed for demolition Friday, the Daily reports. The Alden Dow-designed building will be replaced by a new, $165 million, 200,000 square foot facility with…
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I Spy Update | September 2022
…… building at 2929 Plymouth Road.” “With the Fleming Building,” writes Bob Hart, it’s “a tough month” for Alden Dow. The Plymouth Building (1969–70) “was designed and built by” Dow,…
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Fleming Farewell
…was designed by Alden Dow, a well-regarded modern architect who designed eighteen buildings in Ann Arbor, five of them on the U-M campus. Its most distinctive feature, the slit-like windows…
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July 14, 2022
…a $13.5 million renovation to its community building. —Dayton Hare, editor The modernist building at 2929 Plymouth designed by Alden Dow is slated for demolition. Photo: Dayton Hare. The News…Briefly…
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North Zeeb Commons
Celebrated Midland architect Alden Dow designed the 1963 building for University Microfilms, Inc. Founded in 1938 by future U-M regent Gene Power, UMI created miniature film records of everything from…
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Center Sale
Tucked into a hillside, with two levels looking over a recessed courtyard, the low brick building at 625 N. Main epitomizes architect Alden Dow’s “Michigan Modern” style. But until last…
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Midcentury Mail
…Metcalf and David Osler were its two leading practitioners here in the post-WWII era. Midland-based Alden Dow, who studied under Frank Lloyd Wright, also designed houses in Ann Arbor through…
Read MoreLiterary Threads
…raised enough money to rent a bookmobile to take books to playgrounds that summer. The schools did buy the site, and the new library, designed by Midland modernist Alden Dow,…
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…to keep out student protesters,” writes Will Hathaway. “In truth it is a Borg space ship from Star Trek.” Louisa Griffes notes that architect Alden Dow denied that he designed…
Read MoreA star architect’s vision
…a leg tending an elevated planter at Alden Dow’s Ann Arbor library. Frank Lloyd Wright’s eccentricities–leaking roofs, tiny kitchens–are well known. But Chelsea needed a new school–the high school population,…
Read MoreWhose Library Is It Anyway?
…heard that “they were planning to tear the library down, I just had a rush of adrenaline,” he says. An admirer of architect Alden Dow, who designed the first phase…
Read MoreDream Houses
…They each grew up in Midland and were used to seeing architect-designed houses, especially those of Alden Dow (who also designed Ann Arbor’s City Hall and downtown library). Since Ardmoor…
Read MoreMetcalf Modern
…Alden Dow in Midland–according to Metcalf’s construction journal, he paid five cents a brick. Homes that George Brigham designed were filled with light coming in from large south-facing windows. Metcalf…
Read MoreCommunity Center Comeback
…present center on Main Street. She recruited her architect brother, Alden Dow–christened by Frank Lloyd Wright as his “spiritual son”–to design the building. The new center was completed in April…
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