The Columbia Center is a pair of twin towers on Big Beaver Road in

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. Both buildings were designed by Minoru Yamasaki & Associates, designers of

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and the now-destroyed

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. Both buildings stand 14 floors and are 193 ft (59m) tall. At one time

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had a ticket office in Suite 115 of the complex.Ticket Offices and Phone Numbers
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. June 13, 1998. Retrieved on November 20, 2012. "Columbia Center, Suite 185 201 West Big Beaver Road Troy, MI 48084"

Columbia Center East

Columbia Center East is located at 101 W. Big Beaver Road. The building was constructed in 1998, and finished in 2000. It stands at 15 floors in height, with 14 above-ground floors, and 1

basement A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are completely or partly below the ground floor. It generally is used as a utility space for a building, where such items as the furnace, water heater, breaker panel or fuse box, ...

floor. The high-rise is used as

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for a number of local and regional businesses. The building was designed in the modern architectural style, and uses mainly

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and

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Columbia Center West

Columbia Center West is located at 201 W. Big Beaver Road. The building was built in 1989, and has the same number of floors and basements as its younger twin. The high-rise is used for

office An office is a space where an Organization, organization's employees perform Business administration, administrative Work (human activity), work in order to support and realize objects and Goals, plans, action theory, goals of the organizati ...

restaurant A restaurant is a business that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers. Meals are generally served and eaten on the premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services. Restaurants vary greatly in appearan ...

retail Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturers, directly or through a wholesaler, and t ...

, and includes a fitness center. Like Columbia Center East, it was designed in the

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, and uses mainly

and

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