GM just opened a sprawling new design center that will help shape the future of its cars

General Motors has just revealed its massive new design building. It’s already changing the way the automaker designs cars. Located at GM’s Detroit-area Technical Center campus, the 360,000 square foot facility expands capacity for up to 1,500 designers, with much of the area dedicated to the 44 mills where full-sized model cars are sculpted and formed out of clay. Combined with the old design building, itself covering more than 225,000 square feet, GM now has what it calls the...