One Kennedy Square

42°19′53″N 83°02′51″W / 42.3313°N 83.0474°W / 42.3313; -83.0474Completed2006HeightAntenna spire73.2 m (240 ft)Roof56 m (184 ft)Technical detailsFloor count10Floor area23,627 m² (254,320 sq ft)Design and constructionArchitect(s)S. Kenneth Neumann
Neumann/SmithDeveloperREDICO

One Kennedy Square is a 10-story building located at 777 Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, near Campus Martius Park. The building is bordered by Griswold Street, Michigan Avenue and Woodward Avenue, and stands on the site of the old Detroit City Hall. It is occupied by the Ernst & Young accounting firm.

Description

One Kennedy Square sits atop the 460-spot, municipally-owned Kennedy Square Underground Parking Garage, which was renovated by L.S. Brinker Company. The parking garage was a part of the old Kennedy Square.

Construction on the mid-rise started in 2005 and was completed in 2006. The building has 13 total floors, with 10 above-ground floors, and 3 basement floors.

One Kennedy Square was designed in the Modern architectural style, constructed with a translucent emerald green tinted glass exhibiting the role of color in architecture amidst Campus Martius Park's other modern foray, the golden topaz One Campus Martius and the charcoal gray granite/glass 1001 Woodward Avenue Building. One Kennedy Square provides a unique backdrop, enlightening a new dimension for the Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument.

The architect is S. Kenneth Neumann^[1] of Neumann/Smith & Associates, the developer is REDICO and the construction manager is Spencer Dailey, Inc.

Nearby buildings include The Qube, the First National Building, 1001 Woodward, Chrysler House, the Penobscot Building, and the Cadillac Tower.

Facts

• This translucent, emerald green glass building is capped by a prominent spire which is lit at night.
• The building is 184'-6" to the top of the prominent glass screen that rises above the front façade of the building along Campus Martius Park.

References

Further reading

• Cable, Carol (1983). Translucent Architecture: Recent Trends in Glass Construction. Vance Bibliographies. ISBN 0-88066-342-1.
• Kaltenbach, Frank (2004). Translucent Material: Glass, Plastics, Metals (Detail Praxis). Birkhauser. ISBN 3-7643-7033-5.
• Riera, Oscar Ojeda and James McCown (2004). Architecture in Detail: Colors. Rockport Publishers, Inc. ISBN 1-59253-107-5.

External links

• Downtown Detroit photo gallery
• Google Maps future location of One Kennedy Center
• "Emporis building ID 102168". Emporis. Archived from the original on 2015-05-12.
• "One Kennedy Square". SkyscraperPage.