The Gillespie-Studio Intrigue aliiance is a unholy alliance, and Studio Intrigue is an individual scourge on this city's post-modern architectural landscape. What you see above was a very rough original concept for the smaller corner site of this block before Gillespie spent the last few years trying to buy up this entire block for something far more grand. This original concept was particularly offensive given the location; this has to have at least ground floor commercial space, and I'm happy that this is now a large component of the development.
I've seen people (rightfully) complain about the architecture of their developments before on their social media, and their excuse couldn't be more patronizing: "Milennials like colors." More accurately it's that people don't generally care about architecture either way, or at least will tolerate bad architecture. Truth be told, as bad as Studio Intrigue is, whoever does Gilbert's stuff in Detroit also has a similar concept, at least as it relates to interior design. The only thing I'll give Studio Intrigue is that their work on smaller, commercial buildings is often inoffensive. Their stuff seems to work better on a smaller scale; the problem is scaling upwards.
BTW, the design architect for Park District in East Lansing has been Solomon Cordwell Buenz out of Chicago for the last few weeks. Studio Intrigue was never formally affiliated with any iteration of this project. The last time they had any involvement at all was during an informal design competition where they mocked up a rough concept for the area along with four or five other local developers and architectures.
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