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ONARCHITECTURE- Float their boat: 'Learning Barge' teaches lessons Published on Jul 6th, 2006 2 comments
They've designed solar houses, affordable green modular housing, projects to help rebuild the Gulf Coast, and are redesigning Campbell Hall, but the UVA School of Architecture's most recent design-...
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ON ARCHITECTURE- You façadist! Views collide over First & Main Published on Jun 29th, 2006 0 comments
As the Downtown Mall celebrates its 30th birthday, a fierce debate is brewing over the direction it will take in the next 30. On one side are preservationists who want to retain the Mall's historic...
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ON ARCHITECTURE- Myth buster: Bill Lucy asks the hard questions Published on Jun 22nd, 2006 0 comments
Bill Lucy has a soft-spoken, unassuming manner, but his ideas are anything but. Armed with statistics, a keen analytical mind, and a taste for irony, the 67-year old UVA architecture professor of...
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ON ARCHITECTURE- Church sale: God's will or downtown parking issue? Published on Jun 15th, 2006 0 comments
If you've been browsing for properties near the Downtown Mall lately, you may have stumbled upon an unusual offering: a 110-year-old late Gothic Revival-style church, yours for only $2.8 million....
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Fifeville blitz! Six houses up in six days! Published on Jun 8th, 2006 0 comments
On Saturday morning, June 3, the start of the "Blitz," six foundations lined the new, still-dirt Nunley Street– created and named to honor the Nunley family, owners of Better Living Inc., who...
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Cox's army: UVA team has winning coast design Published on May 25th, 2006 0 comments
It's been a big year for UVA architecture professor and ex-Charlottesville mayor Maurice Cox. Last November, Cox was invited to serve on the Mayors' Institute on City Design for the Gulf Cities...
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ON ARCHITECTURE- Hey, architects!: Brad Pitt needs your help Published on Apr 27th, 2006 0 comments
New Orleans has no shortage of potential celebrity saviors. Actor Sean Penn took a beating in the press for his boat rescue of Katrina victims, most reports chiding it as an egotistical publicity...
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ON ARCHITECTURE- Am not! Are so!: Architects scrap over South Lawn project Published on Apr 20th, 2006 0 comments
In 2001, when UVA hired the Polshek Partnership to design the new South Lawn project, it appeared the powers that be had something really exciting and innovative in mind. After all, the firm was well...
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ON ARCHITECTURE- Little High Noon: Neighbors, Region Ten square off Published on Apr 13th, 2006 0 comments
Pragmatism and idealism have always been warring elements of architectural design, but like a marriage, it's the blending of the two that makes a project work. After all, what good is an inspired...
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ON ARCHITECTURE- Courthouse collapse: Engineers' time to shine (a light) Published on Apr 6th, 2006 0 comments
Last week, the entire northeast corner of the old Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court building fell off. While no one was hurt in the March 30 structural mishap, the incident could drive up the...
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ON ARCHITECTURE- Retrofit: Are SIPs the new way to build? Published on Mar 30th, 2006 0 comments
Like solar heating technology, Aerosmith, hip-hugging jeans, big belt buckles, long hair, and other artifacts from the '70s, insulated panel construction is making a big comeback.
"I'll never do...
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ON ARCHITECTURE- Tower power: Staunton's signature timepiece Published on Mar 23rd, 2006 0 comments
Unlike Charlottesville– which is architecturally identified by Monticello or the Rotunda, buildings at a certain remove from the actual town– Staunton's architectural emblem is a downtown...
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Giant symbols: Belmont manor plays its part Published on Mar 16th, 2006 0 comments
When Rock Hudson came to Charlottesville to shoot the opening scenes of George Steven's classic 1955 movie, Giant, he landed at a luxurious Keswick mansion that was supposed to speak volumes about...
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Giant symbols: Belmont manor plays its part Published on Mar 16th, 2006 0 comments
When Rock Hudson came to Charlottesville to shoot the opening scenes of George Steven's classic 1955 movie, Giant, he landed at a luxurious Keswick mansion that was supposed to speak volumes...
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ON ARCHITECTURE- Urban hustle: Ready for <I>two more</I> Malls? Published on Mar 9th, 2006 0 comments
For readers who don't know, Albemarle Place is Charlottesville's biggest test case for new urbanism a development scheduled to rise up at the intersection of Route 29 and Hydraulic Road that will be...
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Urban hustle: Ready for <I>two more</I> Malls? Published on Mar 9th, 2006 0 comments
For readers who don't know, Albemarle Place is Charlottesville's biggest test case for new urbanism a development scheduled to rise up at the intersection of Route 29 and Hydraulic Road that...
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ON ARCHITECTURE- Glory days? Staunton bets its future on the past Published on Mar 2nd, 2006 0 comments
Nothing illustrates Staunton's past glory, decline, rebirth, and new ambitions better than the renovation of the Stonewall Jackson Hotel.
Built in 1924 at a cost of $440,000, the 96-room colonial-...
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Glory days? Staunton bets its future on the past Published on Mar 2nd, 2006 0 comments
Nothing illustrates Staunton's past glory, decline, rebirth, and new ambitions better than the renovation of the Stonewall Jackson Hotel.
Built in 1924 at a cost of $440,000, the 96-room...
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ON ARCHITECTURE- Tripped up: Locust sidewalk curbed for now Published on Feb 23rd, 2006 0 comments
Three years ago, the Locust Grove Neighborhood Association voted to use a big chunk of its federal block grant to extend Locust Avenue's sidewalk south down to Smith Street. According to the City's...
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ON ARCHITECTURE- Name recognition: Using TJ as a marketing tool Published on Feb 16th, 2006 0 comments
Unbeknownst to him, Thomas Jefferson has sold a lot of real estate in this town. Using the name of Charlottesville's most celebrated citizen– not to mention architect and designer– as a...
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Name recognition: Using TJ as a marketing tool Published on Feb 16th, 2006 0 comments
Unbeknownst to him, Thomas Jefferson has sold a lot of real estate in this town. Using the name of Charlottesville's most celebrated citizen– not to mention architect and designer– as a...
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ON ARCHITECTURE- RiverBluff: Green or slick marketing scheme? Published on Feb 9th, 2006 0 comments
At first glance, "smart growth" trends in urban planning seem pretty, well, smart.
Take the rural development model called "conservation subdivisions," for example. Introduced in the early '90s, it'...
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ON ARCHITECTURE- Historic treatment: Staunton commits to Western State Published on Feb 2nd, 2006 0 comments
You'd have to be crazy to buy a condo, rent office space, or open up a nice boutique in a former insane asylum and prison, right? Maybe, but developers in Staunton are banking that folks will....
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Historic treatment: Staunton commits to Western State Published on Feb 2nd, 2006 0 comments
You'd have to be crazy to buy a condo, rent office space, or open up a nice boutique in a former insane asylum and prison, right? Maybe, but developers in Staunton are banking that folks will....
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Jefferson's jail: Lovingston's new discovery Published on Jan 26th, 2006 0 comments
For generations, rumor had it that the Nelson County Courthouse in Lovingston was designed by Thomas Jefferson. So what else is new? As UVA architecture professor Richard Guy Wilson jokes, "...
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Parking pleasure: New Street garage wows Staunton Published on Jan 19th, 2006 0 comments
This is the second in a series of occasional stories about Staunton.
In the early-1970s, the old Strand Theater in Staunton was torn down to make room for a parking lot. The Strand, a Mission...
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Wall of shame or honor?: Locals test-drive the free speech wall Published on Jan 12th, 2006 0 comments
Who would have thought that one of Charlottesville's most provocative architectural projects would be a solitary wall?
Yet the bold and simple design that local architects Peter O'Shea and Rob...
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Eye candy: Staunton cures visual blues Published on Jan 5th, 2006 0 comments
One of the guilty pleasures of architecture is simply looking at it. Recent projects like Norman Foster's Hearst Tower in New York City or Bernard Kohn's Meteor subway line in Paris are marvels of...
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ecoMOD lands: Modular model makes waves Published on Dec 22nd, 2005 0 comments
Last week we highlighted the Piedmont Housing Alliance's collaboration with the Charlottesville Community Design Center in creating three modular houses in the 10th and Page neighborhood.
Now the...
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Mod squad: Designers, PHA go modular Published on Dec 15th, 2005 0 comments
Just before Thanksgiving, three houses built in a factory in just seven days were driven to a lot near the intersection of 10th and Page Streets. Then the three 1,200 square-foot modular houses...
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