Modern architecture enlivening Southeast Michigan's landscape

Environmentally sensitive, beautifully detailed innovative modern design is sprouting up all over Southeast Michigan.

Projects of interest include the The Kresge Foundation headquarters on Big Beaver in Troy, designed by Valerio Dewalt Train Associates of Chicago; the new Lear Corp. headquarters on Telegraph in Southfield, designed by Detroit-based Albert Kahn Associates; and the Mexicantown International Welcome Center and Mercado in southwest Detroit, designed by Teng & Associates of Chicago.

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Southeast Michigan is seeing more and more examples of a thoughtful modernism enlivening its landscape. No longer is the Detroit landscape bound to the brick-and-stone historical styles that produced winners in the distant past but seem out of step with vibrant new design ideas.

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