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Detroit, Michigan — Est. 2008

Buildings
that earn
their age.

Discipline
Adaptive Reuse
Scale
Civic · Cultural · Residential
Studio Size
14 Architects
Practice / 02
68+
Projects completed
4.2M
Square feet transformed
9×
AIA Michigan Awards

Detroit doesn't need
new buildings.
It needs its old ones back.

Voss Riedel was founded on a single premise: that the most sustainable building is the one that already exists. Since 2008, we have worked inside Detroit's industrial skeleton — its factories, engine plants, rail depots, and power stations — giving them new civic purpose without erasing what made them worth saving.

We don't decorate structure. We reveal it. Concrete bears load; steel spans space; brick holds memory. Our job is to put those materials back to work and let the building tell you what it was.

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Practice Areas / 04

What we
build._

01 Adaptive Reuse Industrial buildings reactivated as housing, offices, civic facilities, and cultural institutions. →
02 Historic Preservation Structural restoration and façade rehabilitation compliant with SHPO and National Register standards. →
03 Civic & Cultural Libraries, community centers, performance spaces, and public infrastructure for Detroit's neighborhoods. →
04 Mixed-Use Development Ground-floor activation strategies and residential towers that treat affordability as a design constraint, not an afterthought. →
Fisher Body Plant redevelopment -->

Featured Project No. 047

Fisher Body
Plant No. 21

A 280,000 square-foot former GM body stamping plant in Milwaukee Junction, vacant since 1984. Converted into 237 mixed-income residential units, a 12,000 sf community market hall, and artist studio space — without removing a single original concrete column or sawtooth rooflight.

Location
Milwaukee Junction, Detroit
Year
2022
Size
280,000 sf
Program
Residential + Civic
Historic Status
National Register
Awards
AIA Michigan Honor Award 2023

The Studio

14 Architects · Detroit, Michigan
Ingrid Voss

RIBA-trained in London, worked with Zaha Hadid Architects before returning to Detroit. Leads civic and cultural projects. Believes a building should outlast the people who commissioned it.

Ingrid Voss
Founding Principal
Klaus Riedel

Structural engineer turned architect. Leads adaptive reuse and historic preservation work. His specialty is understanding what a building can carry — physically and culturally.

Klaus Riedel
Founding Principal
Amara Osei Mensah

Taubman School of Architecture graduate, 10 years in affordable housing policy before joining the studio. Brings a developer's literacy to design conversations — budgets are design constraints.

Amara Osei-Mensah
Associate Principal
Henry Szymanski

Landscape architect and urban systems thinker. Leads site work and public realm design. Argues that the space between buildings matters more than the buildings themselves.

Henry Szymanski
Senior Architect

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Studio
1600 Clay Street
Detroit, MI 48211
Phone
(313) 481-0772
Email
projects@vossriedel.com
Studio Hours
Monday – Friday, 8am – 6pm

Proposals reviewed by principals. We respond to every inquiry within 48 hours.