Heheh. I think intrigue is like surpise — bold features that are elegant but unexpected, things that make you want to look twice or see what’s around the corner. Traditional buildings have no intrigue because they follow the conventions of a well-known style. A lot of Modern stuff, like the glass box skyscraper, has little intrigue because its forms are regular and predictable. But a lot of the Modern buildings I see here have certain features, like bold, unusual structural elements, big, open areas that tie together several smaller spaces on different floors, and asymmetric walls of glass with sweeping views. Even this shopping mall, though it’s not the best example, has a bit of intrigue to it. It could have been a typical plate-glass commercial building, but then these rich exposed-wood beams give it this really sharp framing and the diagonal ones create triangular windows. It makes me wonder, “why the diagonal beams? Doesn’t that make the windows way more expensive? Doesn’t that interfere with the commerical displays? Is the exposed wood problematic in winter?” But it makes it visually way more interesting. I like that kind of stuff.