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Residential lobby. Photo © Garrett Rowland
At the hotel’s rear, the floor plate turns to the left to In designing the building, “we knew the architecture
connect with the rear of the apartment building, creating had to have an energy and look you wouldn’t see elsewhere
a second elevated courtyard between the hotel and the in the city,” Caudle said. With rental apartments, a hotel,
apartment building—this one for hotel guests—and an and commercial spaces, the F1RST project “involved not
overall S-shaped floor plan for the entire two-building just our architectural team, but also our hospitality group
project. “We had to plan the apartment building and the for interiors and graphics group for signage. We love when
hotel to create the right amount of openness and privacy this happens, since it helps us create a holistic vision to
at the same time,” Caudle said, adding that, with the the design. When that happens in one [design] shop, the
courtyards created by the S shape, the two buildings collaboration is immediate and spontaneous, something
“play nice with each other.” that is hard to do otherwise.”
Photo © Jeffrey Sauers