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Climbing Up

Jim Bassett is named director of Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture, Arts, and Design

Green Light

Concept by Fentress Architects for a 9/11 Pentagon Memorial Visitor Education Center approved by D.C. commissions

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A Corten steel wall and gardens designed by Nelson Byrd Woltz and HGA recognizing enslaved people at Monticello opens

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Prime Office Space

Amazon releases first images of its ZGF- and NBBJ-designed Arlington HQ2

Two Boxes of Oranges and Admonia Jackson

In Alexandria, Nina Cooke John’s latest installation uncovers recently revealed histories

rendering of HQ2
Constipated

Amazon halts construction on its HQ2 development in Arlington, Virginia

interior view of converted warehouse with stairs and desk
Industrial Feeling

A power plant turned office by ARCHITECTUREFIRM makes room for creative growth

a bench in a leafy wooded landscape
Letting the Light In

HGA and Nelson Byrd Woltz complete design refresh at Monticello’s Burial Ground for Enslaved People

a confederate statue covered in graffiti, the robert e. lee statue in richmond
Plans, Hatched

Richmond’s felled Confederate monuments will likely go to state Black history museum

a 3d-printed home construction site
Home For the Holidays

Habitat for Humanity debuts the world’s first 3D-printed owner-occupied home in Virginia

Rendering of a spiraling glass tower with three boxy ones around it
HQ2, Take Two

Amazon reveals an updated design and timetable for PenPlace at its HQ2 campus

a confederate statue covered in graffiti, the robert e. lee statue in richmond
Dismounted

Richmond’s Robert E. Lee statue has been taken down

Exterior of the menokin house, a historic brick building partially rebuilt with structural glass
History On Display

The historic Menokin House gets a novel rewrapping in structural glass

A statue of robert e lee covered with a black tarp in front of an anti racism march against confederate monuments
To The Halls Of History

More than a dozen organizations apply to acquire Charlottesville’s toppled Confederate monuments

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Folding Fan

HGA’s marble panels fold into the future of mixed-use development

elevation drawing of a home
New Beginnings in Old Dominion

Habitat for Humanity and Alquist partner for the East Coast’s first 3D-printed Habitat home

exterior view of a modern museum wing with a sign reading Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
A Giant Grows Bigger

SmithGroup will lead expansion and renovation of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

A statue of robert e. lee in charlottesville in 2006.
Good Riddance

Charlottesville’s Confederate memorials can come down, Virginia supreme court rules

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