Cadillac Place
The Cadillac Place (until 2002 General Motors Building ) is an administrative building in Detroit , USA. It is the former headquarters of General Motors .
The building has a gross floor area of 402,702 m². It is 67.1 m high and has 15 floors. The building structure is that of a double crest with a main corridor and four transverse wings arranged at right angles. The building is regarded as a pioneer of this type, which allowed a previously unattainable, three-sided exposure to natural sunlight in an administration building. Another building in which this system was used is the IG-Farben-Haus by Hans Poelzig from 1930.
The building was constructed by Albert Kahn from 1919 to 1923 as the headquarters of General Motors in Detroit. After its completion, the building was considered to be one of the largest administrative buildings in the world. In June 1978, Cadillac Place was granted National Historic Landmark status.
It housed the headquarters of the General Motors Company until 1996 when it moved to the Renaissance Center in Detroit. In 2002 the building was renovated and named Cadillac Place , after Detroit's city founder Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac . Since then, the building has been used by the State of Michigan as a government building.
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- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Michigan. National Park Service , accessed August 14, 2019.
Coordinates: 42 ° 22 ′ 8.6 " N , 83 ° 4 ′ 32" W.