“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 […]
If the ghost of Thomas Jefferson were to appear at our bedside and grant us one election-altering wish, it would be this: That all redistricting decisions be taken out of human hands and assigned to a robot.
In the days after Tom Gilliam IV fell 40’ from the top of the UVA Physics Building to his death, university officials began work to prevent Gilliam’s fellow students from making similar, potentially fatal, ascents.
Welcome to C-VILLE’s Design Annual, where each year we address the latest in local design. This year’s issue is a little different in that much that’s been designed here hasn’t, in fact, been built. Instead, we talked to outstanding students in UVA’s architecture school who are looking to solve today’s problems—from global warming to boring […]