Insights and perspectives on MPA’s most recent projects, awards and clients.
July 5, 2019
“The space was smartly designed by McIntosh Poris Architects. Doors can slide open or closed to provide a sense of openness or privacy as needed. Walls double as white boards. Many of the rooms are wired for projectors and screens. There’s […]
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July 2, 2019
McIntosh Poris Associates is honored and humbled to receive the Jury Comments: “It takes full advantage of the location—of being in Detroit. | It’s statement making: it telegraphs opulence and decadence. | It is almost like being in a gallery”. […]
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June 28, 2019
McIntosh Poris Associates is honored to accept a Restaurant Honor Award and The People’s Choice Award for Prime + Proper. The American Institute of Architects Los Angeles chapter (AIA|LA) is delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 AIA|LA Restaurant […]
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June 25, 2019
New buzz-worthy hotels are rockin’ to this city’s revitalized rhythm. A dazzler: Detroit Foundation Hotel, which defines cool vibes. This hotspot gathering haven is warmly welcoming, too. Follow the link to Forbes>>
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June 12, 2019
The 1.2-mile non-motorized trail connecting pedestrians and cyclists from the Riverwalk to Vernor, is about to get another Greenway! The goal of the plan is to transform the blighted waterfront where the city began, which was developed as an industrial […]
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June 4, 2019
McIntosh Poris Associates was hired by Bedrock Detroit to transform a former dry goods and wholesaler’s building in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit. The 4-story masonry building overlooking the river including a fifth floor residential penthouse addition with 50 below-grade […]
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April 22, 2019
Renovated Como’s Restaurant Aims to Bring Detroit-Style Pizza to Ferndale This Spring. MPA chose to remove the restaurant’s red awnings in favor of an updated brick facade with sawed off brick ends used to outline the Como’s name on the exterior. […]
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April 3, 2019
“When you adapt a building it’s important to weave together its history and program to create a place that’s fitting for today,” Michael Poris said in a statement. “We’ve created a design to cohesively reflect the past, present, and future […]
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March 27, 2019
Ten years ago, we weren’t thinking as much about what the experience should be and about making things unique as we were about creating really cool designs — something you might see in a glossy magazine spread but that could […]
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Details worth saving. In 2009, MPA Architects began the massive restoration and development of the original Woodward Garden Theater designed in 1912 by C. Howard Crane. “We’ve come full circle and now we appreciate the amount of labor and time and […]
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