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.
Elsing Green
City: King William
Date: 1690
Architect: William Burnett
County: King William
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
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
Allied Arts Building
City: Lynchburg
Date: 1931
Architect: Stanhope S. Johnson and Addison Staples
County: Lynchburg
Brentsville Courthouse
City: Bristow
Date: 1822
Architect: William Claytor
County: Prince William
Wounded Warrior Home Project
City: Fort Belvoir, Alexandria
Date: 2011
Architect: Michael Graves
County: Fairfax
Green Spring *ruin
City: James City
Date: 1643
Architect: Sir William Berkeley
County: James City
Polegreen Church
City: Mechanicsville
Date: 1743
Architect: Samuel Morris
County: Hanover
Chelsea Plantation
City: West Point
Date: 1709
Architect: Augustine Moore
County: King William
Institute for Contemporary Art
City: Richmond
Date: unbuilt
Architect: Steven Holl
County: City of Richmond