The Andantes Complex is a four-story civic-cultural center located on the corner of Atwater St and Chene St on the Detroit East Riverfront, directly across from the Aretha Franklin Amphitheater. The structure celebrates the rich music history of the city, featuring programming which seeks to both keep the history alive and inspire future generations of musicians and other creative minds. The complex’s namesake, The Andantes (Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow, and Louvain Demps), primarily performed background vocals for other artists signed to Motown Records, and can be heard on thousands of recordings. These three musicians, represented throughout the three primary forms of the complex, helped to elevate the works of numerous Motown legends throughout their careers–a legacy which The Andantes Complex seeks to preserve and promote. Inspired by the trends of Motown music to combine various more traditional instrumentations and sounds to create the distinctive tone of the genre, The Andantes Complex combines pure geometric forms with rotational forces and distinctive wishbone columns to create a unique user experience through mass timber construction. With the performance hall serving as the focal point of the complex, the performance hall itself mimics the proscenium arch of a stage assembly, with the forces of the surrounding structures and pedestrian pathways drawing the attention of occupants on onlookers alike towards the large glazed opening and statement structural members.