ISCG in Royal Oak has long been designing workplaces for clients with an eye toward rehabilitation and re-use. Last year the firm put its money where its mouth was and became its own client. The building? The discarded Royal Radio building on Main Street. The results speak for themselves.

Architecture can catalyze a neighborhood or change the way we think about our community. It can be inspiring, iconic, or even controversial. So which buildings rate as game-changers in Metro Detroit? We asked a quartet of prominent local architects to select twelve buildings worth paying attention to.

Tawny Thieu talks so quickly and with so much energy it’s almost impossible to keep up with her. And that could really be said of her as a businesswoman too – she’s almost impossible to keep up with. Since 2007 she has opened four stores under her signature Pink Pump brand and another three stores under the more affordable Pink Pump offshoot P2. But success didn't come so easily to the perky entrepreneuer: after some initial failure, Thieu found a way to land on her feet.