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The original building, designed by James H. Fitts, was built as an office building for an insurance company in 1968. Designed in the typical modernist style of the time, the building is a simple box of concrete block, brick, steel, and glass.
When the insurance company moved in 1973, James Fitts bought the building to house his architecture practice. The original 2,500 s.f. building was not large enough to accommodate a growing practice. An addition was designed to mirror the footprint of the original building. The 2,100 s.f. addition is shifted back twenty feet, defining the two pieces, and reducing the scale of the building from the street.
The modernist box of the original building is maintained on the exterior. The new addition stands in contrast, with its dramatic roof form; yet it compliments and relates to the original building’s materials and forms.
The interior of the building presents an open plan, full of color and natural light. With the exception of the conference room and toilets, the spaces are defined only by wall planes of color. Indirect daylight floods the space and reflects off the exposed structure, creating an ideal studio environment.
