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Fisher Body Plant #21, Interior
The former automotive plant offers a half-million square feet of floor space to prospective developers.
Hastings Street
About working in downtown Detroit, Hemmerle comments, "It was odd. Everywhere we went in the Rust Belt, people told us, `Be careful. Detroit is very dangerous.` But all of the people we met when we were working were really, really kind."
Former Housing Plots
"On many occasions," Hemmerle says, "I had the feeling I was working in a post-Apocalyptic environment."
Packard Automobile Manufacturing Plant
Many of the derelict structures are used by homeless people.
The Michigan Theatre
Built in 1926, this glorious building functioned as a performance space until 1976, when it was converted into a parking garage.
Michigan Central Station, Exterior
Opened in 1913, the terminal was designed by the architects Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stern, the same firm that designed New York City`s Grand Central Terminal. "It`s staggering," says Hemmerle, "that such a phenomenal piece of architecture could stand empty for twenty years."
Fisher Body Plant #21, Interior
The pyramid in the middle of the floor was constructed by artist Scott Hocking.
Michigan Central Station
Once the city`s primary passenger depot, Central Station has not been used since 1988. Photographer Hemmerle sought out Detroit`s derelict buildings as part of a project exploring how far America has fallen. "Industry is one of the things that we let go that we need to get back," he says.
The former automotive plant offers a half-million square feet of floor space to prospective developers.
Hastings Street
About working in downtown Detroit, Hemmerle comments, "It was odd. Everywhere we went in the Rust Belt, people told us, `Be careful. Detroit is very dangerous.` But all of the people we met when we were working were really, really kind."
Former Housing Plots
"On many occasions," Hemmerle says, "I had the feeling I was working in a post-Apocalyptic environment."
Packard Automobile Manufacturing Plant
Many of the derelict structures are used by homeless people.
The Michigan Theatre
Built in 1926, this glorious building functioned as a performance space until 1976, when it was converted into a parking garage.
Michigan Central Station, Exterior
Opened in 1913, the terminal was designed by the architects Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stern, the same firm that designed New York City`s Grand Central Terminal. "It`s staggering," says Hemmerle, "that such a phenomenal piece of architecture could stand empty for twenty years."
Fisher Body Plant #21, Interior
The pyramid in the middle of the floor was constructed by artist Scott Hocking.
Michigan Central Station
Once the city`s primary passenger depot, Central Station has not been used since 1988. Photographer Hemmerle sought out Detroit`s derelict buildings as part of a project exploring how far America has fallen. "Industry is one of the things that we let go that we need to get back," he says.
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