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I take exception to City Pulse's selection of the NOCA Lofts in Bath Township's 425 area as Eyesore of the Year. As is obvious from the ground-swell of support for The Blue Loop earlier this year, many Bath Township residents know avant-garde art when they see it. When the Bath Township Board approved the NOCA project and building design, the lack of public reaction showed the community was completely overcome by the "shock of the new" development.

The architectural style of NOCA Lofts is not so much post-post-modern as Lawrence Cosentino termed it, but better described as "Lego Chic" (a style invented by a ten year old using broken bits of a Lego set) which is seen around Lansing in other structures like 2018's Eyesore of the Year SkyVue Apartments. The blue, gray, and bare cement of its facades drawfrom the palette used in the Gillespie Group's buildings as does NOCA's stunning non-Spartan shade of green.

I can't wait to see the Red Cedar project's style.

Tom Hardenbergh

Bath Township