Cadillac Place

The Cadillac Place ( to 2002 General Motors Building ) is an office building in Detroit, USA. It is the former headquarters of General Motors.

The building has a gross floor area of ​​402 702 m². It is 67.1 meters high and has 15 floors. The building structure is that of a double comb with a main passage and disposed at right-angles four transverse wings. The building is considered a pioneer of this type, which allowed a hitherto unprecedented, three-sided exposure to natural sunlight in an administrative building. Another building in which this system was applied, the IG- Farben-Haus by Hans Poelzig from the year 1930.

The building was built in 1919-1923 by Albert Kahn as the headquarters of General Motors in Detroit. After its completion, the building was considered one of the largest administrative building in the world.

There Headquartered to 1996 the headquarters of the General Motors Company until it moved into the Renaissance Center in Detroit. In 2002 the building was renovated and the name Cadillac Place given to him by Detroit's city founder Antoine de La Mothe Laumet, Sieur de Cadillac. Since then the building is used by the State of Michigan as a government building.