General Motors Design Auditorium Warren, Mich. SmithGroupJJR

摘要

"A place for leadership in furthering new attacks on the technological frontier": So declared President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956, feting General Motors' new Tech Center in Warren, Mich. The showpiece of the 710-acre campus was, and remains, Eero Saarinen's Design Auditorium, a 180-foot-diameter dome atop a short colonnaded base faced in linked aluminum sheeting. The building is a sort of surgical theater for the automotive set, allowing engineers, management, and select members of the public to examine the company's latest products in a controlled setting.