Springdale, Arkansas, 2004

Situated on a 3/4-acre lot in a small office park and housing a small privately owned financial lending company, the structure is sited in opposition to the prevailing orientation of other offices with their front façade to the street. This is a building made of tough materials on its exterior, but gives way to a more refined and enriched interior. Stretching north to south the building's concrete block base is inflected at the center of its east elevation to provide a 'slipped entry', an extended void, for people to slide between an angled sandblasted concrete block wall and a metal clad shell. A central lobby space conjoins a one-story level of offices and work area with a two-story area comprised of spaces for private pleasures: exercising, smoking cigars, tasting wine and cooking. The space of the upstairs cigar room, enveloped in walnut panels and flooring, extends through a folding glass wall to a shaded deck. This is an exterior room, with the foliage of trees filling in and completing the open side. The Srygley Office Building supports the notion of place specific architectural form and is set in opposition to the inexorable standardization of most contemporary construction and ideas.