This past summer, while interning with the MotorCities National Heritage Area, I was sent to Flint, MI to photograph the historic Fisher Body Plant No. 1. This legendary site was the location of the Flint Sit Down Strike, arguably the most important strike in American labor history.  While working with Jet Lowe, the renowned photographer for the Historic American Engineering Record, I discovered this abandoned building on the west side of the plant. Have a laugh, for it’s the hideous building of the week. 

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UPDATE: Ha, hats off to the Brits for coming up with such a great idea for a – gasp! – reality show!

“Channel 4 and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) are teaming up to find Britain’s worst buildings – to reduce one to richly deserved rubble and replace it with something better.

Demolition is a major 4-part series in which viewers will be asked to nominate contenders from all over Britain for this dubious honour.

Each building will be judged by a panel of experts according to its quality of construction, scale and aesthetics. The opportunity to create a new building in its place and the reasons why bad buildings get built in the first place will be explored. The final live night of the series will see a spectacular celebratory demolition of one of the nation’s nastiest eyesores.”

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