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The Professional Plaza Tower, also known as the 'Hammer and Nail' building due to its two iconic illuminated signs (now removed), is a high-rise building located at 3800 Woodward Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan.[1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 10 relations: Curtain wall (architecture), Detroit, Detroit Medical Center, International Style, Michigan, Midtown Detroit, National Register of Historic Places, Neon sign, Tower block, Urban renewal.

  2. 1966 establishments in Michigan
  3. Detroit Medical Center
  4. International style architecture in Michigan
  5. Office buildings completed in 1966
  6. Residential skyscrapers in Detroit
  7. Woodward Avenue

Curtain wall (architecture)

A curtain wall is an exterior covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, instead serving to protect the interior of the building from the elements.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Detroit Medical Center

The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) is a for-profit alliance of hospitals that encompasses over 2,000 licensed beds, 3,000 affiliated physicians and over 12,000 employees.

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International Style

The International Style or internationalism is a major architectural style that developed in the 1920s and 1930s and was closely related to modernism and modernist architecture.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

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Midtown Detroit

Midtown Detroit is a commercial and residential district located along the east and west side of Woodward Avenue, north of Downtown Detroit, and south of the New Center area. Professional Plaza Tower and Midtown Detroit are Woodward Avenue.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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Neon sign

In the signage industry, neon signs are electric signs lighted by long luminous gas-discharge tubes that contain rarefied neon or other gases.

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Tower block

A tower block, high-rise, apartment tower, residential tower, apartment block, block of flats, or office tower is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise building and is defined differently in terms of height depending on the jurisdiction.

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Urban renewal

Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities.

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See also

1966 establishments in Michigan

Detroit Medical Center

International style architecture in Michigan

Office buildings completed in 1966

Woodward Avenue

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Plaza_Tower