Watson Fine Administration Buildings
1945
The Emile Watson and Benjamin Fine Administration buildings were to be located just west and only a few feet from the Water Dome. Wright designed two structures joined by a double esplanade. The U-shaped Watson building had a garden with a pool in the center, the smaller square Fine building, slightly less than half the size of its neighbor, was closer to the Water Dome. The effect one gets from the plan is that the smaller building has been pulled out of a larger rectangle and then shifted off its center axis.
Both parts of the administration building shared the same building materials as the previously constructed buildings — concrete blocks, Red Tidewater Cypress trim, copper fascias. The double wide esplanades became an integral part of the design of the two buildings, dividing the structures, with diamond shaped passages of greenery in the center of the walk, under similarly shaped skylights in the esplanade roof.
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