In Savannah, Georgia, the First Federal Saving and Loan Association bank was built in 1961 by Levy & Kiley Architects. Thirty years later, the bank was purchased and transformed into the Broughton Municipal Building. Today, the stout building with a granite facade is home to a new 36,850-square-foot hotel, Municipal Grand. AAmp Studio led the adaptive reuse effort, collaborating with local architecture preservation firm, Ward Architecture + Preservation, to reuse original materials and enhance the historic midcentury charm, while also incorporating tropical modernism, in line with the city’s design lineage.

“We were delighted to learn more about the modernist influence evident across the historic core of the city,” said Anne-Marie Armstrong, cofounder of AAmp Studio. “With Municipal Grand we wanted to celebrate this legacy of midcentury design on the city at-large, and position it to be appreciated in the future.” This vibrant mid 20th–century tropical modernism is the inspiration for the design of many of the hotel’s food and beverage programs, drawing from the opulent curves used in the work by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and botanical pops from Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx.

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