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Compuware World Headquarters is located at 1 Campus Martius, in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It was constructed in 2000, and finished in 2003. It stands at 18 floors in height, 16 above-ground, and 2 below-ground. Campus Martius Park is a park in Detroit. ... Nickname: Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Location in Wayne County, Michigan Coordinates: Country United States State Michigan County Wayne County Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Area    - City 370. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


The high-rise is used as an office building, a restaurant, retail space for Compuware, and has a fitness center inside, as well as an atrium. High-rise is a 1975 novel by J. G. Ballard. ... This article is about traditional meanings of the word office. ... Toms Restaurant, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld A restaurant is an establishment that serves prepared food and beverages to order, to be consumed on the premises. ... Drawing of a self-service store. ... Skaters in front of Compuware World Headquarters, Detroit, Michigan. ... In Anatomy, atrium refers to a structure of the heart. ...


The building was constructed in the late-modernist architectural style, using glass, granite, and limestone as its main materials. Glass can be made transparent and flat, or into other shapes and colors as shown in this sphere from the Verrerie of Brehat in Brittany. ... Quarrying granite for the Mormon Temple, Utah Territory. ... Limey shale overlaid by limestone. ...

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Description

  • This building is the headquarters of the largest computer company in Michigan, and one of the largest in the nation.
  • Connected to this building is a 45-meter tall, 12-story (2 underground floors), 2,200-space parking garage attached to it.
  • The top two floors (Floors 15 and 16) of this building are purely mechanical in usage.
  • The 14th floor of this building includes an observation deck that rings the entire floor.
  • Michigan's only Hard Rock Cafe occupies a large part of the retail space on the ground floor.
  • The building contains a full-height atrium with an indoor waterfall and water scuplture as its center focal point.
  • The building has the ability to be expanded by 350,000 square feet to the north by filling in the missing "wedge" in the back of the building.

This article is about the U.S. State. ... A multi-storey car park is a building or part thereof which is designed specifically to be for vehicle parking and where there are a number of floors on which parking takes place. ... Hard Rock Cafe is a chain of casual dining restaurants. ... Hopetoun Falls near Otway National Park, Victoria, Australia A waterfall is usually a geological formation resulting from water, often in the form of a stream, flowing over an erosion-resistant rock formation that forms a sudden break in elevation. ...

Facts

  • The building's water feature was designed by WET Design, the same people who designed the fountains at Bellagio and the Winter Olympic cauldron. It features fifteen glass "kites" and, at more than 14 stories tall, represents the largest indoor, hanging water feature in the world.
  • The building has 280,000 square feet of glass.
  • A Hard Rock Cafe was opened in late 2003 on the dining level.
  • Phase II of this building (when demand warrants its construction) will be a 325,000 square feet addition to the back of the building to fill in the missing wedge.
  • The entire 14th floor includes an outdoor observation deck around the interior.
  • Like numerous buildings in the Western world, this one does not include a labelled 13th floor.
  • The top two floors, (15 and 16) house mechanical services exclusively.

Buildings nearly lean over the water of the lake. ... A runner carries the Olympic torch The Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics for short but more correctly The Olympic Winter Games, are the cold-weather counterpart to the Summer Olympic Games. ...

Compuware Garage

  • This parking structure includes over 20,600 square feet or retail and office space on its first floor, and a 2,891 square foot daycare center on its second level.
  • The Compuware Garage is home to the Cadillac Center Station on the Detroit People Mover route.

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See also

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Downtown towers under 25 Floors

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Downtown library and musuems

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New Center and other areas

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