McIntosh Poris Architects News

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Woodward Garden Theater and Apartments Won 2014 CREW Special Impact Award

October 14, 2014 - Crain's Detroit

McIntosh Poris was awarded the 2014 CREW Detroit Impact Award for the Woodward Garden Theater and Apartment project in Detroit. The CREW Detroit Impact Award is presented annually to multi-disciplinary real estate development projects in the Michigan region. The Special […]

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Family Heirlooms get retrofit

October 6, 2014 - Casa Vogue

Slatcher Residence featured in international publication ‘Casa Vogue”. A traditional house, in the style that Americans call a ranch, built in 1962, but with certain modern touches, was the home of a young couple looking for a new place. The […]

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McIntosh Poris Featured in Detroit Home Magazine

September 17, 2014 - Detroit Home

McIntosh Poris is highlighted in the Fall 2014 issue of Detroit Home Magazine within an article titled “Restore & Repurpose.” The piece celebrates creative methods of transforming old elements into fresh designs and blending vintage styles with contemporary ones. Follow […]

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Woodward Garden Theater and Brizola Receive AIA Detroit Honor Awards!

- AIA Detroit

We are pleased to announce that both Woodward Garden Theater and Brizola have received 2014 AIA Detroit Honor Awards! Follow the link>>

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DuCharme Place: 185 New Apartments Greenlighted in Lafayette Park

July 29, 2014 - Curbed Detroit

DuCharme Place, a residential development planned for Lafayette Park, looks ready to leap from rendering to reality after a decade on the back burner. Featuring four contemporary residential buildings, DuCharme is slated for the site once home to Rochdale Court […]

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185-Unit Apartment Development to Begin Construction this Fall

July 17, 2014 - Model D

What started as a community of town homes nearly ten years ago has morphed into a four-building, 185-unit apartment development on the edge of downtown. Keeping the original name DuCharme Place, architects McIntosh Poris Associates and long-time Detroit developer Walter […]

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Rediscovering the Garden

June 30, 2014 - DBusiness

It’s a vision that George Stewart and Michael Byrd have dreamed about. And after 15 years of filling out paperwork, scrambling for financing, and basically waiting for the city’s revival to catch up with their dreams, it’s coming together. Paradise […]

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Dip & Dive Three cool pools with poolside panache — from furniture to landscaping — make a splash

June 4, 2014 - Detroit Home

WHAT// A West Coast native finds a metro Detroit home swimming with familiar style By Judith Harris Solomon THE BACKSTORY Not long after moving to the Detroit area, Julia and Richard Slatcher purchased a 1960 home in Beverly Hills. When […]

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A gem off the old block: Persistence, luck help new developers build Midtown and a legacy

June 3, 2014 - Crain's Detroit

Stewart and Byrd were visionaries with large-scale plans for Detroit development years before Dan Gilbert began building his real estate empire and redeveloping it downtown, said David Di Rita, principal of the Detroit-based Roxbury Group, the developer of the David Whitney […]

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A look inside Midtown Detroit’s latest development, the Woodward Garden Apartments

May 29, 2014

DETROIT, MI – The official opening Thursday of the Woodward Garden Apartments marks the beginning of the end for a four-phase project that began transforming the Woodward Avenue block between Selden and Alexandrine with the arrival of Great Lakes Coffee, […]

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