This week’s edition of the Detroit web magazine Model D featured an pretty in-depth interview with Tom Brennan, co-founder of the Green Garage and the El Moore, about how and why to build green in Detroit. We like to think of the El Moore, which is an experiment in sustainable living, as a sister project to the […]
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Work continued last week on the alley behind the El Moore. Following the removal of the concrete alley surface, deep holes were dug 15 feet down to expose the sewer line. This allows us to create a new sewer connection for the El Moore building. It also allowed us to open a section of the line
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The early days of the El Moore, as captured by artist Kevin Gardner, reveal snapshot portraits that seem to highlight a certain mood that a photograph could never quite yield. For example this image, “Danger: Hard Hat Area”, drawn from the vantage point of the alley located behind the building, offers a sparse yet focused
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The El Moore, a reconstruction project focusing on historic rehabilitation and modern urban sustainability, is based on the history of Detroit as a city of neighborhoods, and how that history shapes how Detroit is reinventing itself yet again. This is the first in a series of posts on the “Voice of Detroit” and how that
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