Charred wood, lead shingles and molten glass are among the materials used by artist Anders Ruhwald to transform a vacant Detroit apartment building into a public art installation that acts as a memorial.
The installation, called Unit 1: 3583 Dubois, is located inside a once-dilapidated apartment building on Detroit's East Side.

Anders Ruhwald ? a ceramic artist from Denmark who now works in the US ? purchased the brick building in 2014 and has been working ever since to create the immersive installation, which is meant to honour the building's history.
"The permanent installation is both a memorial and a proposal in which materials and forms coalesce to retell, and thus reclaim, the past, animate the present, and suggest a shifted future," the artist said.
The building dates to 1910. Interestingly, its original address ? 3583 Dubois ? no longer exists. Long ago, the city give the building a new address of 2170 Mack Avenue. This change, while seemingly harmless, erases part of the building's past and compromises one's memory of place.
"It is a subtle change, but one that underscores a metaphoric loss of this place's history," said Ruhwald. "Like so many in Detroit and cities like it, this once-abandoned building holds memories waiting to be erased or revived."

The 7,000-square-foot (650-square-metre) building has undergone a meticulous overhaul. Several hallways and eight, full-sized rooms have been converted into dark, windowless spaces...