Storrs Hall is the home of the School of Architecture in UNC Charlotte's College of Arts + Architecture. Ferebee, Walters and Associates of Charlotte designed it with the New York architects Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel. The dedication was on October 29, 1990, and the cost was $7.5 million.
Before it was built, the school shared space in the Atkins Library building. In 1980 Dean Charles C. Hight listed seven reasons for a new building, including criticism from the National Architectural Accrediting Board. In 1992 it was renamed for Thomas I. Storrs, a former trustee and board chair.
The building covers 87,000 square feet (8,083 square meters). Its exterior is brick and stucco, and its interior has end-grained wood floors and ground-faced concrete block walls. Skylights and windows bring in natural light. At its naming it was called a veritable textbook of building materials and systems.
This building has no Wikipedia article. Facts come from UNC Charlotte news: Storrs Building considered an architectural textbook, Clio: Storrs Hall, UNC Charlotte.
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