One Kennedy Square

One Kennedy Square
General information
Type	Office
Location	777 Woodward Avenue Detroit, Michigan
Coordinates	42°19′53″N83°02′51″W / 42.3313°N 83.0474°W / 42.3313; -83.0474
Completed	2006
Height
Antenna spire	73.2 m (240 ft)
Roof	56 m (184 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	10
Floor area	23,627 m2 (254,320 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect(s)	S. Kenneth Neumann Neumann/Smith
Developer	REDICO

One Kennedy Square is a 10-story building located at 777 Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, near Campus Martius Park. The building is bordered by Griswold Street, Michigan Avenue and Woodward Avenue, and stands on the site of the old Detroit City Hall. It is occupied by the Ernst & Young accounting firm.

Description

One Kennedy Square with the Penobscot Building in the background

One Kennedy Square sits atop the 460-spot, municipally owned Kennedy Square Underground Parking Garage, which was renovated by L.S. Brinker Company. The parking garage was a part of the old Kennedy Square.

Construction on the mid-rise started in 2005 and was completed in 2006. The building has 13 total floors, with 10 above-ground floors, and 3 basement floors.

One Kennedy Square was designed in the Modern architectural style, constructed with a translucent emerald green tinted glass.

The architect is S. Kenneth Neumann ^[1] of Neumann/Smith & Associates, the developer is REDICO and the construction manager is Spencer Dailey, Inc.

Nearby buildings include The Qube, the First National Building, 1001 Woodward, Chrysler House, the Penobscot Building, and the Cadillac Tower.

Facts

• This translucent, emerald green glass building is capped by a prominent spire which is lit at night.
• The building is 184'-6" to the top of the prominent glass screen that rises above the front façade of the building along Campus Martius Park.

References

1. "AIA Detroit 2006 design awards". Archived from the original on 2007-05-31. Retrieved 2007-06-03.

Further reading

• Cable, Carol (1983). Translucent Architecture: Recent Trends in Glass Construction. Vance Bibliographies. ISBN   0-88066-342-1.
• Kaltenbach, Frank (2004). Translucent Material: Glass, Plastics, Metals (Detail Praxis). Birkhauser. ISBN   3-7643-7033-5.
• Riera, Oscar Ojeda and James McCown (2004). Architecture in Detail: Colors. Rockport Publishers, Inc. ISBN   1-59253-107-5.

External links

• Downtown Detroit photo gallery
• Google Maps future location of One Kennedy Center
• "Emporis building ID 102168". Emporis . Archived from the original on 2015-05-12.
• "One Kennedy Square". SkyscraperPage .