SDG Associates
American architectural firm in Detroit (1964, now), founded 1964, based in Detroit, Michigan
Designer of the Renaissance City Apartments, the 33-floor tower that rose in Detroit in 1985.
The story
The records date SDG Associates to 1964, with Detroit, Michigan as its home and name Howard Sims and Harold Varner as its founders. In Metro Detroit, SDG Associates' work on record is the Renaissance City Apartments, 33 floors in Detroit, finished in 1985. It went up during the decades Detroit spent remaking its downtown.
Forest City Enterprises is credited beside SDG Associates on the Renaissance City Apartments. The Renaissance City Apartments still stands at 333 E Jefferson Avenue, and the best way to know SDG Associates is to stand in front of it.
Sims Design Group Associates LLC, often simplified as SDG Associates, is an American architectural firm, headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.. It is the city of Detroit’s oldest and largest Black-owned architecture firm.
SDG Associates' work in Metro Detroit
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Renaissance City Apartments
1985, Detroit, Skyscraper
Still standing, photographed 2022
Photo: 42-BRT, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Who SDG Associates worked with
- Forest City Enterprises on the Renaissance City Apartments
Where the work stands
Photo credits
The photo on SDG Associates' page, each with its author, license and the original.
- Millender Center, a mixed-use complex in downtown Detroit, Michigan, United States, 2022 Photo: 42-BRT, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sources
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