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	Guardian Building Products :: Home
		With locations throughout Europe, Latin America, Asia, North America, the Middle East, and Africa, Guardian Industries is THE leader in float glass and the automotive industries.
		Comprised of Guardian Fiberglass, Guardian Distribution and Guardian Direct, GBP is one of the largest building material distribution networks in North America.
		Guardian Building Products also has an office in China, where the Guardian brand of fasteners, aluminum coil and extrusions, and other products are manufactured.
	www.guardianbp.com (214 words)

	Guardian Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Guardian Building, a National Historic Landmark, is a skyscraper in downtown Detroit, Michigan.
		The height of the building is 489 feet (149 m).
		At the top of the Guardian Building's spire, is a huge American Flag, similar to the four smaller flags sitting atop nearby 150 West Jefferson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guardian_Building (331 words)

	Guardian Building
		The Guardian Building documents the booming, modern city Detroit had become in the 1920s.
		The luxurious interior caused the Guardian Building to quickly become known as the "the Cathedral of Finance." Rowland divided the main banking room into three parts that resembled a nave and two aisles and designed an elaborately decorated, barrel-vaulted ceiling.
		The Guardian Building is located south of the intersection of Woodward, Michigan, and Gratiot Avenue at 500 Griswold Street.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/detroit/d17.htm (324 words)

	West Virginia Development Office - Media Center - News Releases
		Guardian Fiberglass operates in a $35 million, 700,000-square-foot facility, which provides a strong complement to Guardian’s four other fiberglass facilities in Arizona, Michigan, Mississippi and Ontario.
		Guardian Industries Corp., based in Auburn Hills, Mich., is a leading worldwide manufacturer of float glass and fabricated glass products for the commercial and residential construction industries and is the world’s largest producer of mirrors.
		Guardian’s Building Products Group includes one of the largest manufacturers of fiberglass in the world and occupies a significant and growing position in the building materials distribution business.
	www.wvdo.org /news/current/0708guardian.cfm (292 words)

	Details of Detroit - Downtown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Book Building on Washington Boulevard was a part of the early creation of a city beautiful movement in Detroit.
		The cross barrel vaulting of the main entrance to the Buhl Building is a mosiac using bright blue tile.
		The Penobscot Building was the tallest in Detroit when it was complete, 47 stories, and remained so until 1978.
	www.123.net /~czege/downtown.html (1247 words)

	Albion College News
		Guardian Industries announced today that its subsidiary, Guardian Building Products, Inc., is expanding its Albion, Michigan, fiberglass insulation plant with a $25 million makeover that will add up to 135 new jobs.
		Guardian currently is one of the city's largest employers, employing 275 people in Albion.
		Guardian’s Building Products Group, headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, includes a substantial fiberglass insulation manufacturing operation and occupies a significant and growing position in the building materials distribution business with more than 100 strategically located distribution centers and brokerage offices in the United States and Canada.
	www.albion.edu /ac_news/releases2004-05/guardian.asp (423 words)

	Guardian Building has long been the crown jewel in Detroit skyline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Penobscot Building, begun in 1928, the tallest in the city for nearly 50 years, highlighted the downtown skyline along with the new Buhl Building in 1925.
		Of Detroit's skyscrapers, the Guardian became the crowning jewel in the city's booming financial district.
		The unique Guardian Building still stands, basically unchanged, as a monument to the artisans, masons, craftsmen, painters and architects who worked furiously in the 1920s to ensure Detroit would be a showplace of American architecture.
	info.detnews.com /history/story/index.cfm?id=131&category=locations (1884 words)

	Guardian Building Shops to Open in August - UrbanPlanet.org
		The 40-story Guardian Building, built in 1929 and designed by architect Wirt Rowland, is at 500 Griswold Ave., between Congress and Larned streets.
		MCN left the building after the company merged with DTE Energy Co. in 2000, and the SmithGroup architectural firm occupied the mezzanine-level space.
		Samson says MCN had kept the Guardian Building in good shape overall, and that Sterling Group is spending more than $1 million on additional renovations.
	www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=5456 (956 words)

	Guardian Building
		The Guardian Building documents the booming, modern city Detroit had become in the 1920s.
		The luxurious interior caused the Guardian Building to quickly become known as the "the Cathedral of Finance." Rowland divided the main banking room into three parts that resembled a nave and two aisles and designed an elaborately decorated, barrel-vaulted ceiling.
		The Guardian Building is located south of the intersection of Woodward, Michigan, and Gratiot Avenue at 500 Griswold Street.
	www.nps.gov /history/nr/travel/detroit/d17.htm (324 words)

	The Hampton County Guardian Online - Homepage
		The Hampton County Guardian is one of Hampton County's oldest traditions.
		The Guardian played a key role in trying to help shape a new county government and build a new life for the people out of the ruins of an old one.
		The architect was B. Lloyd Preacher and building contractor H.B. Patillo, according to the cornerstone visible today on the three-story brick building on Lee Avenue.
	www.hamptoncountyguardian.com /about_us (1370 words)

	Guardian Fiberglass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Guardian Fiberglass began operations in 1979 and is headquartered in Albion, Michigan.
		The five Guardian manufacturing facilities are located in Albion, MI; Erin, Ontario, Canada; Mineral Wells, MS; Inwood, WV; and Kingman, AZ.
		Guardian Fiberglass produces a complete line of light density fiberglass building insulation products for the US and Canadian markets.
	www.guardx.com /guardianfiber.htm (84 words)

	Guardian Fiberglass :: Home
		Guardian Fiberglass, Inc., manufactures a complete line of light-density fiberglass building insulation products for the construction markets in the United States and Canada.
		Guardian is now the fourth largest manufacturer, and follows aggressive marketing principles.
		Guardian is known for its positive, hard-working people, entrepreneurial spirit, and commitment to its customers, the independent lumber dealers.
	www.guardianbp.com /content.php?id=7 (200 words)

	Guardian Custom Products \| Ohio Table Pads \| Custom Table Pad \| Tablepad Storage Bags \| Game Tabletop Ohio
		With that goal in mind our table pads are made with the highest quality materials, superior workmanship, and all with an assurance guarantee of the lowest possible price to you the consumer.
		Not only do we manufacture custom built table pads, we can also custom build pads for buffets, servers, end tables, coffee tables, night stands, home or office desks, computer tables, conference tables, dresser tops, and bookcase shelves to name just a few of our specialty items.
		Because Guardian Elite table pads are made with the finest materials available they come with a lifetime guarantee on materials and workmanship.
	www.guardian-tablepad.com (473 words)

	Guardian \| Building on Scotland's heritage
		A recent survey revealed that 85% of Scots believe better quality buildings and public spaces improve quality of life, compared with just 65% in England.
		Even the notorious parliament building has raised the profile of the subject.
		Despite best intentions, there is, however, the problem of persuading big building companies and clients of the benefits of spending more on design.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5081565-110427,00.html (671 words)

	MHAL - Guardian Building (Union Trust Building, Union Guardian Building) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Guardian Building is part of the progression of the American skyscraper that began with Cass Gilbert's Woolworth Building in New York and is one of the most exuberant Art Deco skyscrapers built in America.
		From its location on an entire block in the financial district, the warm and colorful bank building exudes a friendly cordiality.
		The building is profusely ornamented inside and out with geometric designs executed in brilliantly colored terra cotta and glazed tile, and gold-stained glass and metal.
	www.michigan.gov /hal/0,1607,7-160-15481_19267_20424-54589--,00.html (237 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Owner suspected after New York building blast
		At least 15 people were injured when the gas blast shook the building on Manhattan's Upper East Side at 8.40am, blowing out the windows in adjacent buildings on the street, home to upmarket retailers such as Hermès.
		As plumes of fl smoke billowed out of the building, the CNN chat show host Larry King, who had been staying in a nearby hotel, told the network that initially he had feared a terrorism attack.
		He and his parents had purchased the building in 1980 for $400,000; at today's prices it was assessed at $5m.
	www.guardian.co.uk /usa/story/0,,1817700,00.html (458 words)

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		The skyscrapers included the First National Building (Kahn, 1922), the Cadillac Tower (Bonham and Chaffee, 1927), the Buhl Building (Smith, Hinchman and Grylls, 1928), the Water Board Building (Kamper, 1928), the David Scott Building (Donaldson and Meier, 1929) and the Fisher Building (Kahn, 1929).
		It reflects the application of the Art Deco mode of the 1920s to the design of a building designed to be functional but also convey a strong message about the competency of the firm occupying it.
		They moved their headquarters into the Guardian Building and, in 1988, began a restoration that returned the building to the great beauty Wirt Roland intended.
	detroit1701.psc.isr.umich.edu /GuardianBldg.htm (1097 words)

	Guardian Building, Detroit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Termed a "cathedral of commerce" and "one of the most exuberant Art Deco skyscrapers built in America," the Guardian Building was built for what was at the time Detroit's leading financial institution.
		The cathedral theme is emphasized on the exterior by the two towers at each end of the building connected by a somewhat lower navelike block.
		The Guardian Building was the world's tallest masonry structure when it was completed.
	www.emporis.com /en/wm/bu/?id=118559 (321 words)

	Penobscot Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Penobscot Building is a skyscraper in downtown Detroit, Michigan.
		The building also served as an inspiration of sorts for the Empire State Building in New York City, and many individuals worked on the construction of both towers.
		The Penobscot Building was Detroit's tallest building for nearly half a century until the Marriott Renaissance Center overtook it in 1977.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penobscot_Building (744 words)

	Metal buildings, prefabricated steel buildings, prefab metal buildings - MetalCon 2003 Exhibitors \| MetalBuilding.com
		Guardian Fiberglass, Inc., part of the Guardian Building Products Group, manufacturers a complete line of light density fiberglass building insulation products for the construction markets in Canada and the United States.
		Guardian products are sold under well-known private brand names including Georgia-Pacific, Ace Hardware, TrueValue and Do It Best, with a primary focus on the independent lumber dealer and home center market.
		Guardian is known for its positive, hard working people, its entrepreneurial spirit, and its commitment to its customers.
	www.metalbuilding.com /directory/view.html?cat=INSULATION (1062 words)

	Developers Reclaim Guardian’s Glory - UrbanPlanet.org
		The Guardian Building is a prime example of the Art Deco craze of the time.
		In 1975, the Guardian Building was sold to Michigan Consolidated, which occupied the building until it was bought by Sterling Group Real Estate late last year.
		On the ground floor of the building is a large promenade area, which formerly housed one of the building’s tenants.
	www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=4931 (911 words)

	Guardian - Building and Construction - Danish Technological Institute
		Guardian is an integrated data collecting and presentation program which control collection, monitoring and presentation of e.g.
		As an example Guardian can be used for monitoring the heat development during the casting of concrete structures.
		Guardian provides the possibility of defining warnings for instance if the temperature differences becomes too large during casting of a concrete structure.
	www.danishtechnology.dk /building/1304 (196 words)

	MHAL - General Motors Building (Cadillac Place)
		The mammoth General Motors Building, with its eighteen hundred offices, symbolizes the power, prestige, and scale of one of the largest manufacturing corporations in the world.
		The fifteen-story building consists of an elongated central block with four projecting wings on the front and four in back, which allow ample natural light and greater air circulation for the employees.
		In 2002, the General Motors Building was renamed Cadillac Place to honor Detroit's founding father. It now houses several state departments and agencies.
	www.michigan.gov /hal/0,1607,7-160-15479-54586--,00.html (307 words)

	Welcome to Guardian Technologies International
		Borrelli will be responsible for building Guardian's radiology informatics business and managing strategic alliance and partnerships in the U.S. and Europe.
		Guardian's products and services automate the processing of large quantities of graphic, numeric, and textual data so organizations can efficiently detect, extract, analyze or effectively act upon the information gleaned from the data.
		Guardian's solutions are designed to improve the quality and speed of decision-making and enhance organizational productivity and accuracy.
	www.guardiantechintl.com /news.php?npage=07282004_1&nmeta=13 (641 words)

	Cleveland Skyscrapers 350 to 200 feet
		The building features a 3 story “L”-shaped banking lobby, which is one of the world's largest.
		Formerly the National City Bank building, this building was renovated to accommodate a hotel chain, with many decorative elements from the banking era restored.
		This building was one of the first residential high-rise projects constructed in downtown Cleveland.
	www.clevelandskyscrapers.com /cleveland/clesky200.html (999 words)

	Virtual Booth
		Guardian Building Products is made up of Guardian Fiberglass, Inc, Guardian Building Products Distribution, Inc, and Ashley Aluminum LLC.
		With headquarters in Greenville, SC and over 100 regional offices, distribution centers and manufacturing facilities throughout North America, GBP is one of the largest building materials distribution networks in the country, serving the residential and light commercial construction industries.
		Each company has its own clearly defined niche within the building materials distribution channels.
	www.buildersshow.com /Exhibitors/VBooth.aspx?id=1092 (117 words)

	Wirt C. Rowland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1911, in the office of Kahn, he and Ernest Wilby are said to be primarily responsible for the Hill Auditorium on the campus of the University of Michigan.
		In the Guardian Building Rowland integrated the work of multiple artisans, mosaicists, sculptors (notably Corrado Parducci), painters and tile manufacturers to synthesize an architectural experience comparable to the collaborative effect of a medieval cathedral, hence its name "the Cathedral of Finance".
		Unfortunately the Guardian Building opened in 1930, just as the Great Depression hit the city, and Rowland formed his own office.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wirt_C._Rowland (360 words)

	Guardian Building
		Between the two world wars, America was engaged in a period of feverish building activity, constructing tall buildings particularly in New York, Chicago, and Detroit.
		The automobile manufacturing city was busy building public and industrial buildings, hotels and movie palaces that were lavish by any national standards.
		The Union Trust (now Guardian) Building is one of the most ebullient examples of the use of Arts and Crafts tiles covering a steel skeleton.
	www.byways.org /browse/byways/13754/places/37209 (233 words)

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