The reinforced concrete shell-vaulted ceiling of the Anchor Marine Building designed by architect Lionel H. Abshire was ideally suited to the needs of this former boating retail store.

With its slab roof and covered breezeway supported by slender steel columns, the Florida branch of the Union Federal Savings and Loan Association, designed by A. Hays Town, favors the international style.

The off-center facade of the IBM building, designed by local architectural firm John F. Wilson & Robert M. Coleman, highlights a functional aesthetic with its asymmetrical design.

A. Hays Town, the architect who popularized the Creole cottage design in the 1970s and ’80s, dabbled in modernity when he designed the East Baton Rouge Health Clinic, which features a t-shaped plan, volumetric forms and an overhanging slab roof.