FABRAP, or Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Rothschild and Paschal, was an architectural firm founded in Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...

 in 1958. They specialized in sports stadium

Stadium

A modern stadium is a place or venue for outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.)Pausanias noted that for about half a century the only event...

s, and developed the headquarters for several major Atlanta businesses.

History

In 1948 James H. "Bill" Finch and Miller Barnes, two Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology

The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...

 graduates, joined to form architectural firm Finch and Barnes. Caraker Paschal, also a Georgia Tech graduate, became a partner in 1957 to form Finch Barnes and Paschal. In 1958 Cecil Alexander

Cecil Alexander

Cecil Alexander is an American architect, principally a designer of commercial architecture, whose work was often "naturalistic". He worked with the firm FABRAP, which, in 1985, became Rosser FABRAP International and is now Rosser International...

 and Bernard Rothschild joined the firm to create FABRAP. FABRAP embraced the International style

International style (architecture)

The International style is a major architectural style that emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, the formative decades of Modern architecture. The term originated from the name of a book by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson, The International Style...

 popular at the time.

FABRAP partnered with Heery and Heery

Heery International

Heery International, Inc. is an architectural firm that was founded in 1952 by George T. Heery and his father C. Wilmer Heery, Jr., and is currently headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia...

, another major Atlanta architecture firm, in 1965 to develop the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium

Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium

Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, often shortened to "Fulton County Stadium," was a multi-purpose stadium that formerly stood in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.-History:...

. Following the quick completion of this stadium, the partnership gained a large business in developing sports facilities, including the $45 million Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...

 in 1970. FABRAP was hired and partnered with other firms to develop the headquarters for First National Bank in 1966, Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola headquarters

The Coca-Cola Headquarters is a campus in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia that is home to The Coca-Cola Company. The most visible building on the site is a 29-story, 403–foot high One Coca-Cola Plaza. Located on the corner of North Avenue and Luckie Street, the building was completed in 1979...

 in 1979, and Southern Bell in 1982.

In 1984 FABRAP merged with Atlanta engineering firm Rosser White Hobbs Davidson McClellan Kelly to form Rosser Fabrap International. In 1993 the firm was renamed Rosser International

Rosser International

Rosser International is an architectural firm formed from the merger of FABRAP and another Atlanta firm, Rosser White Hobbs Davidson McClellan Kelly.-Buildings:* AT&T Midtown Center* Turner Field* Arena at Gwinnett Center* Petersen Events Center...

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External links

• Rosser, website of the predecessor firm