Editing Guardian Building (section)

==Innovations==
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The Guardian Building featured innovations in both design and technology. The building's designer, [[Wirt Rowland]], specified [[Monel]] metal in place of the commonly used brass and bronze for all exposed metalwork on the building, an innovation which was widely adopted, most notably on New York's [[Chrysler Building]]. Rowland dispensed with traditional forms of decoration, using instead colored materials (brick, stone, and [[terra cotta]]) set in geometric patterns on both the interior and exterior of the structure. The building's elevator system represented the first use of technology which automatically stopped the car level with the floor and opened the doors, tasks formerly handled by the operator.<ref name=Smith>{{Cite book | author= Smith, Michael G. | title=Designing Detroit: Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture| publisher=Wayne State University Press| year=2017| isbn=978-0814339794}}</ref>

[[William Kapp|William Edward Kapp]], architect for the firm of [[Smith, Hinchman & Grylls]] has been credited with interior design work on the Guardian Building.<ref name="Witsil">{{cite news |url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/06/14/meadow-brook-hall-architect-william-kapp/7234324002/ 
|title=Downton Abbey fame leads to Meadow Brook Hall architect getting credit he deserves |first1=Frank |last1=Witsil |date=June 15, 2021 |newspaper=[[Detroit Free Press]]}}{{subscription required}}</ref>