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MAPLE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OFFICE BUILDING

Troy, Michigan
Square Feet: 22,000

The challenge was to design a speculative office building on a very narrow and limiting site that would also have a substantial image. The leasable area was maximized by a long, horizontal building with sleek proportions from the street view. The second floor substantially hangs over the first floor on each end, thereby allowing for covered parking.

To avoid a disturbing “look ma, no hands” quality with brick walls appearing to rest on long horizontal windows, all brick is supported on strongly expressed structural steel beams and lintels. This achieves clarity of expression and feeling that the heavy brick facing is indeed supported with its weight reaching the earth.

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Straub Pettitt Yaste Architects
850 North Crooks, Suite 200, Clawson, Michigan 48017-1311
Phone: 248-658-7777 Email:
mail@straubpettittyaste.com

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