The Water Board, photo by Allan M

“The cities we love we cannot build anymore.”
– City philosopher Charles Landry

Landry was one of the keynote speakers at the Creative Cities Summit in Detroit and he wondered why we usually build monolithic and ugly boxes when that’s not the architecture we say we love. Here’s a look at some of the amazing architecture of Michigan’s cities courtesy the Absolute Michigan pool.

Allan (an architectural student) says that one of his favorite buildings downtown is the often overlooked Water Board Building. This photo is part of his Downtown Motown set, which is best seen as a slideshow I think.