The Renaissance Center is a group of seven connected skyscrapers in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, United States. The Renaissance Center complex is on the Detroit International Riverfront and is owned by General Motors as its world headquarters. The central tower has been the tallest building in Michigan since it was erected in 1977.[1]
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The Renaissance Center is featured in Roads to Nowhere starting in 4 days after people when the tallest building in the state stands empty.
In 25 years after people, the extreme Detroit climate is taking it's toll on the city skyline, including the Renaissance Center. The show gave information that in the time of humans, it stood as a monument to the industry that delivered Detroit into a golden age where Henry Ford's modern assembly line made the family car affordable and his grandson instigated the construction of the Renaissance Center as head of Ford Motor Company. The entire complex, including the 73 story central tower, the tallest building in Michigan, was purchased by General Motors 2 decades later, the one time largest car manufacturer in the world. Steven S. Ross stated that the Renaissance center is a classic example of late 1960s to 1970s design where it's a steel framed and outer skin is almost entirely of glass with the steel frames hold the windows in and building up and make the glass all expand, contract, and vibrate in different ways creating result where it get worn a bit.
The atrium turns into a forest.
25 years after people have turned the atrium of the Renaissance Center into a forest and although the decorative palms died, native trees like Shagbark hickories and giant oaks have moved in. Steven S. Ross explains as long the structure provides shelter, there'll be plant and animal life inside. He continues there would be feral dogs, wolves, and wolverines coming in and would have an ecosystem.
The central tower begins to collapse.
Its fate is revealed in 150 years after people when the central tower of the Renaissance Center still stands taller than any other building but its broken windows have left the structure unable to retain any heat from the sun. Steven S. Ross stated there'll be a lot of rubble and during the winter, ice would build up because the sun would not directly warm the building as most of the glass are gone. Finally, one of the upper floors finally loses its grip and the rest of the central tower collapses. It then brings down one of the adjoining buildings as it falls where it destroyed the atrium below.
Errors[]
- Despite Steven S. Ross speaking about most of the glass would be gone, only few windows is seen broken.
- The reflections in some spots are not removed, despite being in clouded weather. The same applies for the lights, which should have degraded or powered down long ago, and the glass windows would be fogged up to blur the inside view.
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Official Concept[2]
