Voting for Virginia’s Favorite Architecture is now closed. Throughout the months of November and December 2013, the public was asked to select their favorites based on design, innovation, history, or the spirit of their communities and Virginia.
The Virginia Center for Architecture will announce the top 100 structures — Virginia’s Favorite Architecture — in an exhibition opening on April 10, 2014.
The structures featured in this survey were nominated by architects throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects in 2014. The 250 works of architecture — buildings, bridges, monuments, and memorials — in this survey represent some of the best of Virginia’s rich architectural heritage.
Mount Airy Plantation
City: Warsaw
Date: 1764
Architect: Col. John Tayloe II
County: Richmond
Liberia Plantation
City: Manassas
Date: 1825
Architect: Harriett Bladen Mitchell Weir and William James Weir
County: Prince William
National D-Day Memorial
City: Bedford
Date: 2001
Architect: Byron Dickerson, Dickerson Architects and Associates
County: Bedford
Reynolds Metals Company Executive Office Building
City: Richmond
Date: 1958
Architect: Gordon Bunshaft (with SOM), Charles F. Gillette (Landscape architect)
County: Henrico
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
St. Bede Catholic Church
City: Williamsburg
Date: 2002
Architect: Tom Kerns, Kerns Group Architects, P.C.
County: James City
Image Credit: Prakash Patel
Coffee Pot Building
City: Lexington
Date: 1959
Architect: Kenneth Willis
County: Rockbridge
Image Credit: Roadside America
Washington and Lee University Chapel
City: Lexington
Date: 1868
Architect: George Washington Custis Lee and Col. Thomas Williamson
County: Rockbridge
John Marshall House
City: Richmond
Date: 1790
Architect: Mr. Sydnor, Keeling and Smith, W. Goode, W. Duke, and W.B. Lewis
County: City of Richmond
Image Credit: Preservation Virginia
Ronald Reagan National Airport Expansion
City: Arlington
Date: 1997
Architect: Cesar Pelli
County: Arlington
Fort Chiswell Mansion
City: Fort Chiswell
Date: 1839-40
Architect: Stephen and Joseph Cloyd McGavock
County: Wythe
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library
City: Virginia Beach
Date: 1988
Architect: Design Collaborative Architects
County: Virginia Beach