Wurlitzer building (Detroit)
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About the model
The Wurlitzer building? Didn’t you already make that asset? That’s the Wurlitzer building in LA. Both are beautiful, but different in size and look. This building recently, like many Detroit buildings, received a restoration. I thought this was gonna be a simple model, but there was actually a lot more detail than I expected. The fact that it is restored is also quite nice as the Wurlitzer in LA is missing the old details on the first 2 floors as I haven’t been able to find any pictures what they looked like. It took me quite a bit of time to texture this, as there are so many layers and a lot of details.
This model has a 2048×512 texture. The building has about 4400 tris and a lod texture of 512×128 and lod model of 44 tris. Normal mapped, alpha, illumination and specularmapped.
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RICO
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About the building
In the decades before it sat silently decaying, the Wurlitzer Building was filled with music, home to one of the largest music stores in the world – and helped thrill thousands of theater-going Detroiters.
Rudolph Wurlitzer emigrated to the United States in 1853 and settled in Cincinnati. He founded the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. in 1856, though his family had started dealing in musical instruments in 1659 in Europe. His company would quickly become the biggest supplier of instruments in the country and soon started manufacturing pianos sold through a chain of retail stores. Its musical instruments were widely regarded as being high quality and were popular stateside as well as in Europe.
Designed in Renaissance Revival style and opened Dec. 8, 1926, the 14-story building once housed the famous Wurlitzer Co., which made pianos, organs, jukeboxes, radios and instruments. The building, at 1509 Broadway, was designed by Detroit architect Robert Finn and built by the Otto Misch Co. The steel-framed structure is of reinforced-concrete construction. It stands tall, narrow and abandoned at Broadway and John R Street, just like its next-door neighbor, the Metropolitan Building.
The Wurlitzer has a gorgeous terra cotta face, granite piers and trim and an intricate façade accented with ornamental detail. The detail changes at the fourth floor with heavy terra cotta ornaments over the windows. The words “Wurlitzer Building” were built into the sides of the building at the top with black terra cotta blocks.
For a full history you can check: https://historicdetroit.org/buildings/wurlitzer-building
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