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David Stott Building
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David Stott building - a 37 story, 1929 Art Deco Detroit skyscraper.
About this creation
This MOC represents the David Stott building, an Art Deco skyscraper that was built in Detroit during 1929 at 1150 Griswold Street. The design of the original building appears to have been influenced by Eliel Saarinen's 2nd place entry in the 1922 Chicago Tribune building design contest. The David Stott was designed by architects Donaldson and Meier. The building is named after a Detroit businessman who owned a mill and was a boardmember of several other companies. The building remains one of Detroit's 10 tallest skyscrapers* to this day.



* If you count the Renaissance Center as one building (the towers are all integrated on a common base story) then the David Stott is the 9th tallest in Detroit. If you count each Renaissance Center tower separately then the David Stott is the 13th tallest building in Detroit.



I selected this building because of the tall, slim silhouette and for the opportunity to use the dark orange and tan color combination. I reduced the number of stories from 37 to 31 in order to maintain proprotion and to eliminate the need for a step ladder to assemble the top of the building.



Building Statistics:

  • Construction Start: February 12, 2006.

  • Construction End: May 20, 2006.

  • Current Status: Office/commercial.

  • Height: This is my tallest skyscraper to date.


    • Roof: 237 bricks (7.5 feet / 2.3 meters).

    • Architectural Top: 240 bricks (7.6 feet / 2.33 meters).

    • Spire/Antenna: 253 bricks (7.9 feet / 2.43 meters).



  • Foorplate: 35 x 43 studs.

  • Floors: 31 (the real building has 37).

  • Weight: 54 pounds / 24.5 Kg.

  • Portability: Building separates into six modules for transport to MichLTC shows.




Enlarge image 		   The upper portion of the David Stott building's west facade.



Enlarge image 		   A MichLTC train/town display was coming up at a Great Train Expo as I started construction, so I added a temporary roof and used the first three stories as a complete building for the show.



Enlarge image 		   Construction on the upper floors began after I bought a significant portion of the available dark orange bricks from Bricklink.



Enlarge image 		   Construction in progess up to the 25th floor.



Enlarge image 		   The completed building.



Enlarge image 		   The building again, this time without the sunlight.



Enlarge image 		   A photo of the real building that I took in October 2005. This south elevation shows the strange notch on the right that goes almost all the way up to the top of the building. This notch makes the buiding asymetrical.



Enlarge image 		   A closer view of the prototype's upper floors showing the art deco style setbacks. Compare with the first picture of my Lego model which is at almost the same angle.



Enlarge image 		   The bottom three floors are faced with marble.



Enlarge image 		   In December 2006, I displayed the completed building at the Cityscape Detroit meeting held in a building on the Wayne State campus. Multi-millionaire mall developer Albert Taubman was the guest speaker.



Enlarge image 		   The David Stott building's first three floors are overshadowed by the Spencer R's Sears Tower, my IBM building, and Chris Leach's Flatiron building at the March 2006 GTE show in Novi Michigan. That will not happen next time!



Enlarge image 		   The David Stott Building was the tallest Lego skyscraper at the NMRA 2006 National Train Show in Philadelphia.



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Matt Tweedt
  November 19, 2010
Unbelievable! Simply fantastic. This and other works you've done represent exactly what I hope to achieve in the near future. Thank you for setting the bar so high.
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Joshua Benjamin
  October 14, 2009
This building is realistic. Too realistic. I mean when I compared it to the actual picture, it took me a couple of minutes to figure out which one was LEGO! Great job =)
The one they call Erik
  July 27, 2009
I saw this at the train festival in Owosso. Very impressive in person.
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Michael Labelle
  February 26, 2009
Excellent interpretation. Thanks for making me discover Detroit's architectural gems.
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Jonathan Keller
  July 3, 2006
AWESOME!! the building looks great with the use of DARK ORANGE bricks.
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Tifoo 1
  June 21, 2006
This is a VERY cool building you made!
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joshua Henderson
  June 17, 2006
WICKED!!!!!!!!!, totally fabulous man
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Linus Bohman
  May 23, 2006
I'm mesmerized. Well done.
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Jason Spears
  May 21, 2006
Truely excellent work! Dark orange and tan work great together and the scale + the details make this outstanding. Looking forward to seeing this in person.
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Chris Leach
  May 21, 2006
WOW..I have seen the real thing and this looks great!Can't wait to see it at a show! Once again Jim has raised the bar and made me feel like a second rate builder :-) .Chris
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Timmy ltd
  May 21, 2006
very nice! i think a problem might have occured with the rating bar at the top of the page.
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carlaw L2
  May 21, 2006
wow
  
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