{"id":2936,"date":"2025-08-06T19:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:12:06","slug":"loha-studio-dwell-and-more-complete-23-building-neighbourhood-in-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/loha-studio-dwell-and-more-complete-23-building-neighbourhood-in-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"LOHA, Studio Dwell and more complete 23-building neighbourhood in Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Bedrock<\/div>\n

Six architecture studios from across the country, including LOHA<\/a> and Studio Dwell<\/a>, have completed the 23-building City Modern development in Detroit<\/a> that encompasses 450 new residences and the restoration of three Victorian brick mansions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Located in the Brush Park neighbourhood outside of Downtown Detroit, the development spans one full block and another half-block across the street for a total of 8.4 acres.<\/p>\n

\"Mixed-use
The City Modern neighbourhood in Detroit is now complete<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Architecture studios Hamilton Anderson Associates<\/a> (HAA), Merge Architects<\/a>,\u00a0Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects<\/a>\u00a0(LOHA),\u00a0Studio Dwell<\/a>,\u00a0McIntosh Poris Architects<\/a>\u00a0(MPA), and\u00a0Christian Hurttienne<\/a> contributed to its master plan, as well as individual buildings or clusters of housing.<\/p>\n

The majority of the scheme was developed by Bedrock<\/a>, with some individual buildings developed by Hunter Pasteur<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It contains “market-rate, affordable, and workforce housing” \u2013 including senior housing \u2013 across a mixture of apartments, townhomes, carriage homes and condominiums, as well as retail space.<\/p>\n

\"New
It includes 450 new residences spanning 20 newly constructed buildings and three historic Victorian mansions that were renovated for the project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Twenty new buildings were constructed for the project, while three pre-existing brick mansions were converted into housing.<\/p>\n

“City Modern is the first major ground-up neighbourhood built in Detroit since the 1980s,” said Bedrock founder Dan Gilbert.<\/p>\n

“We didn’t just build housing, we rebuilt a community. What was once vacant land is now a mixed-income district with homes, businesses and public spaces.”<\/p>\n

\"Brush
LOHA designed four buildings that sit on the project’s four corners, including the stepped, wood-clad John R apartments 2660<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The neighbourhood’s four corners are bordered by four mixed-use buildings by LOHA<\/a>, including the red metal-clad, geometric 320 Edmund Place and the stepped, wooden John R 2660 apartment building<\/a> in the opposite corner.<\/p>\n

According to the studio, the four buildings were informed by “Detroit’s urban palette” and were clad in materials found commonly in the city, such as brick, wood, and metal.<\/p>\n

\"Carriage
Victorian mansions on-site were converted into condominiums<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They also all tier downwards to meet the heights of adjacent buildings.<\/p>\n

“With sensitivity towards the historic buildings and low-slung character of the neighbourhood, each of the buildings’ massing steps down midblock to the height of the adjacent buildings,” said LOHA.<\/p>\n

\"Mixed-use
Merge Architects completed row housing informed by historic garages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Buildings by Bedrock, Merge Architects, Studio Dwell Architects and HAA sit in the neighbourhood’s core.<\/p>\n

These include twin pitched-roof structures by Bedrock sandwiched between the historic Victorian mansions on site, and rows of duplex-style homes by Merge Architects that were informed by a “reimagination of a historic garage precedent”, according to the studio.<\/p>\n