Rice Hall: UVA cuts ribbon on $65 million smart building

Gallery Added: Fri, 11/18/2011

UVA officials cut the ribbon Friday morning on a $65 million building that can provide real-time reports on its own utility usage while educating the next wave of brainiacs. The November 18 event celebrated Rice Hall, a center for information technology engineering and a place that welcomes the future with several nods to the past.

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art critic on Nov 19, 2011 at 9:45pm.

This building is a welcome addition to the columned architecture one sees in abundance at UVA. This, along with the dormitories near Observatory Hill, is a visionary work, and does justice to Jefferson the innovator, not the pseudo rotunda at Darden, or the tacky, motel-lite design of the South Lawn. Ruffin Hall is another fine architectural addition. Unfortunately the new design for the art museum was axed as too modern.