Here's something very cool that should be bring some international attention to Detroit.
Marti Benedetti writes in Crain's Detroit Business that 12 architects around the country -- two of them from Michigan -- have gathered information about four Detroit sites and are working on proposed plans for what they could be. Their work will be exhibited in four rooms at the 2016 Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, next spring.
The exhibition — called "The Architectural Imagination" — will feature the Packard Plant, the Dequindre Cut, the downtown U.S. Post Office building, and a vacant Detroit Public Works Department yard at Vernor Highway and Livernois Avenue in southwest Detroit.
The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning applied to and was chosen by the U.S. State Department to represent the U.S. at the 2016 exhibition, which runs May 28-Nov. 27.