On the banks of Richmond, Virginia’s James River you’ll find the ghost of an old Lucky Strike Tobacco power plant. The 20,000-square-foot brick complex is now occupied by multimedia creative company Arts & Letters Creative Co. following an extensive renovation by Brooklyn- and Richmond-based ARCHITECTUREFIRM (AF). After a four-year-long search for the right location to expand the growing business, Arts & Letters decided upon the dilapidated warehouse for its shared characteristics with the company’s very first office. “The space seemed to have enough of what we needed but was also a blank canvas upon which to build something new,” Arts & Letters founder and creative director Charles Hodges told AN Interior. “I think working within an existing reality to find a way to create something that hasn’t existed is kind of what we do, so it worked on many levels, practically and conceptually.”

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