University of Michigan

Here are pictures of two U of M buildings in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Architecture As Power

This time it's not the ideological power of the architecture I'm talking about, it's electrical power. I just think this is a visually interesting area in Ann Arbor Michigan.

Architecture Commissioned By Women For Women

Architecture commissioned by the early dowagers of Grand Rapids:
St. Cecilia Music Center founded in 1883 by nine women for the musical education of women.

This building was built in 1894 in the Italian Renaissance style, and designed by Henry Ives Cobb. The details on the outside are nice, but not overly beautiful. Here's the quotation from the site about the design: Cobb was "to design a 'simple and diginified' temple of music."

I have been here for two weddings, and it is quite lovely inside. It has been classified a historical landmark building since 1971, before I was born.






St. Cecilia Music Center. 24 Ransom Avenue NE . Grand Rapids . MI 49503

Custom-Made Sign

In Western Michigan they have the "Parade of Homes" where people pay money to go through new houses, and these are not just any new houses, but state of the art, amazingly huge new houses.

Here is a custom-made and designed sign from one of the builders involved in the Parade of Homes. I was impressed by the house of course, but I loved that the builder designed and made his own sign. I think it is a very classic sign that reflects the style of the builder.

Hudsonville, Michigan