(rvaphotodude– flickr/creative commons license) Rick Mather Architects + SMBW designed a 165,000 ft2 extention to the 1936 the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The rough stone West Wing was added in 1985 by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer. A three-floor atrium has …
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Henry Cary designed the Virginia Governor’s Mansion in Williamsburg, where he also designed the first Virginia Capitol building. The state’s general assembly appropriated £3,000, overseen by Edmund Jenings, to build one of the grandest buildings in America at that time. …
The Montpelier Estate was first built by James Madison’s grandparents near Charlottesville Virginia in in 1723. He added on to it throughout his life, wings on either side, and the front columned porch. Taking cues from Monticello, Madison built balconies …
The Thomas Jefferson Estate Monticello was built by Jefferson himself. A self-taught scholar of Neoclassical Palladian architecture, the famous author of the Declaration of Independence also designed the University of Virginia rotunda. This plantation’s image appears on the United States …
Thomas Jefferson, author of the United States Declaration of Independence, designed the University of Virginia library in Charlottesville, along with much of the campus which still stands today. Jefferson laid out the college campus in 1819 inventively as a configuration …
(Stealing-Beauty Photography– flickr/creative commons license) César Pelli designed the Reagan National Airport just south of Washington, D.C. in Arlington County, Virginia. Originally named the Washington Aiport, it opened in 1941. Pelli’s $450 million expansion opened in 1997. With all the …
(hragv– flickr/creative commons license) Winner of the 2009 International Architect Award, Randall Stout designed the Taubman Museum, formerly the Museum of Western Virginia, in downtown Roanoke. The relocation was completed in 2008. Much like the inspiration for Libeskind’s Denver Museum, …
(marabuchi– flickr/creative commons license) The Pentagon Memorial Park in Washington D.C., which President Bush dedicated today, has been a ‘labor of love’ for those involved. Many have been eager to see a permanent tribute to those killed. Each of the …