General Motors design landmark gets second life – as a school

by: Phil Patton 27 Aug 2009 | 2 views
Year: 2009 | Document Type: ARTICLE | File Format: html | Language: uk
General Motors design landmark gets second life
AutoWeek - 14 July 2009.

Abstract/Summary

"The profession was invented in this room,” says Richard Rogers, president of the College for Creative Studies (CCS), as he stands in the dusty construction site that used to be the General Motors Argonaut Building. “And this is where Harley Earl’s office was.”

Looking across the top floor of the building, it is easy to see a circle of concrete like the landing mark of a flying saucer. The circle is the remnant of an early platform for clay models, developed here for the first time as design tools for mass-production autos.

(Source: AutoWeek)

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