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WHY Save the Quo Vadis Entertainment Center? Becuase its a shame to see such a once-beautiful building get demolished. History shouldn't be as disposable as last weeks newspaper. History should be embraced in a community. It should be honored and respected. There are so many potential uses for this old building, it could be turned into a meeting place for teens, an arcade, a theatre, or even used as a movie theater again. Even if those aren't possible, there could be some sort of adaptive re-use. We've seen one local theatre (George Burns Theatre) meet a dreadful end as a drug-store and condos.As mentioned above the theatre does have great historical value. The Quo Vadis was designed in 1966 by Minoru Yamasaki (December 1, 1912 – February 7, 1986), a prominent Michigan architecht of Japanese descent, most well known for designing the World Trade Centers. The Quo Vadis was one of his petri dish designs, a once proposed design for the World Trade Centers. Yamasaki liked to use his smaller projects to test out design elements for his larger projects. The Quo Vadis bares a slight resemblence to a signle floor of the WTC buildings, granted on a much smaller scale. Yamasaki is often recognized as one of the most prominent architechts of the 20th century, designing more than 45 different structures in the United States! His firm, Yamasaki & Associates continues to do business even to this day. For a full list of buildings designed by Yamasaki, see this page.
April 04 2008 11:53