Detroit in ruins

The ruined Spanish-Gothic interior of the United Artists Theater in Detroit. The cinema was built in 1928 by C Howard Crane, and finally closed in 1974 Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

East Methodist Church Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church, built in the Gothic revival style in 1911 Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

East Side Public Library Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

Light Court, Farwell Building Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

Michigan Central Station Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

Dentist Cabinet, Broderick Tower Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

Offices, Highland Park Police Station Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

The biology classroom at George W Ferris School in the Detroit suburb of Highland Park Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

St Christopher House, ex-Public Library Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

The ballroom of the 15-floor art-deco Lee Plaza Hotel, an apartment building with hotel services built in 1929 and derelict since the early 1990s Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

Michigan Theatre Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

View of Woodward Avenue from the Broderick Tower Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

Detroit’s Vanity Ballroom with its unsalvaged art deco chandeliers. Duke Ellington and Tommy Dorsey once played here. Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

William Livingstone House, Brush Park, a French Renaissance-style house designed by Albert Kahn in 1893 and demolished since this photograph was taken Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

Waiting hall, Michigan Central Station Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre