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.
Center for the Arts, Virginia Tech
City: Blacksburg
Date: 2013
Architect: Snøhetta
County: Montgomery
Hereford Residential College, University of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1992
Architect: Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
County: Albemarle
Photo © Ben Lunsford
Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
City: Winchester
Date: 2005
Architect: Michael Graves
County: Winchester
nTelos Wireless Pavilion, Downtown Mall
City: Charlottesville
Date: 2005
Architect: Bill Lenart, FTL Design Engineering and Tim Thiel, SPEC Technologies
County: Albemarle
Image Credit: Philip Beaurline
Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts Filene Center
City: Vienna
Date: 1984
Architect: Dewberry & Davis, John MacFadyen, Joseph Boggs
County: Fairfax
Image Credit: Chris Issak – Robert Boag (Top) , Dolly Parton – Scott Suchman (Bottom)
Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library
City: Virginia Beach
Date: 1988
Architect: Design Collaborative Architects
County: Virginia Beach
Washington and Lee University Chapel
City: Lexington
Date: 1868
Architect: George Washington Custis Lee and Col. Thomas Williamson
County: Rockbridge
Charles E. Beatley Jr. Central Library
City: Alexandria
Date: 2000
Architect: Pierce Goodwin Alexander & Linville in association with Michael Graves
County: City of Alexandria
Governor’s Palace
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1706-20
Architect: Henry Cary
County: James City
Women In Military Service for America, Arlington National Cemetery
City: Arlington
Date: 1932/1992-97
Architect: William Mitchell Kendall (McKim, Mead and White)/ Michael Manfredi and Marion G. Weiss
County: Arlington
Image Credit: Carol Highsmith
Chelsea Plantation
City: West Point
Date: 1709
Architect: Augustine Moore
County: King William
Bremo Historic District (Upper Bremo, Lower Bremo, Bremo Recess)
City: Bremo Bluff
Date: around 1808-45
Architect: General Hartwell Cocke
County: Fluvanna