The Trump Organization, headed by business mogul and potential presidential candidate Donald Trump, bought the bulk of the Kluge Estate Winery & Vineyard at auction last week. While The Donald didn’t make a personal appearance, a team of business advisors purchased more than 700 acres, along with the old and new vineyards, the winery, labels […]
One year ago this week, George Huguely notched his final points as a member of the UVA lacrosse team. The fourth-year student assisted on a goal against the University of North Carolina, and then scored one of his own during a home loss to Duke in front of a crowd of 8,000. Within weeks, Huguely […]
The same tax rebate program that gave Bill Atwood’s mixed-use Waterhouse on Water Street a necessary financial push will be used to redevelop the current Martha Jefferson Hospital site once the hospital relocates to Pantops in August.
“I have been disappointed that, for different reasons, neither the city nor the county have thought very much about trying to figure out a way to do some more planning in the capital improvement area together,” says Toscano.
Thought experiment: Forget the Thomas Jefferson of the powdered wig. Forget the TJ of fluent French, the Declaration of Independence, and architectural treasures. While you’re at it, forget the George Washington of the Delaware crossing, the John Adams of high-stakes diplomacy, and the brilliant 36-year-old James Madison who dreamed up our Constitution. For now, think […]
As the C-VILLE Design Annual returns (p. 16) to look at a rising generation of architects, we ask, What’s Next? I like the question; being C-VILLE’s editor for the past nine years, I’ve spent a lot of time pondering it myself. Putting together a good read each week—and landing on the thing that needs to […]
There remains a mystique about the South. In its pride and its wilderness. Its sins and its secrets. Even the boundary-dulling effluent of popular culture has not washed away the things that make life in the rural South distinct. Photographs by UVA’s Pamela Pecchio like “On Longing” are shown alongside other works that celebrate the […]
Earlier this year, a UVA architecture program took top prize in an international housing competition sponsored by ARCHIVE (Architecture for Health in Vulnerable Environments). Contestants developed sustainable and affordable homes that could offer attainable relief to a portion of the estimated 1 million Haitians left homeless after a massive earthquake devastated the region in January […]
For 17 years, the Charlottesville City Market has been held at the city-owned Water Street parking lot. But with 80 hopeful vendors currently on the waiting list for slots, the market’s site is bursting at its seams. The Charlottesville City Market task force wants to find a permanent site with double the space currently available […]
We’ve noticed a little more commotion than usual on East Rio Road, where development of the Albemarle Housing Improvement Program’s (AHIP) Treesdale Park is accelerating along the notoriously congested two-lane road. Last November, Pinnacle Construction and Development Corp. broke ground on the affordable housing project, which AHIP estimates will serve nearly 900 working families […]