In its design for the Wilson Secondary School, a public school in Arlington, Virginia, the architecture team of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Leo A Daly responds to diverse programmatic needs—with a twist.
Architect William Rawn is often asked about the 85-foot-long undulating glass facade at his recently completed Ruth Caplin Theatre on the campus of the University of Virginia (UVA), in Charlottesville. People wonder, he says, if it was inspired by Thomas Jefferson’s serpentine brick walls that are part of the so-called Lawn—the complex of 18th-century structures and grounds at the university’s historic heart.
This 5,200-square-foot house and 960-square-foot pool house sit on an acre overlooking Tabbs Creek, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay on the Northern Neck of Virginia.
Ayers Saint Gross Architects + Planners were challenged with the task to comfortably accommodate 450,000 annual visitors on a site that houses the only home in the United States dedicated as a World Heritage Site.
When two scientists from the National Institutes of Health, Roxanne Fischer and Donald Orlic, went looking for architects to build them a house with a Modern aesthetic on their 24-acre property on the north fork of the Shenandoah River, they were led to Berryville, Virginia-based Carter Burton Architects.
Project Specs Shenandoah Retreat Warren County, Virginia Carter + Burton Architecture << Return to article the People Architect Carter + Burton Architecture P.L.C. 11 West Main Street Berryville, Virginia 22611 www.carterburton.com Page Carter Design Principal Jim Burton A.I.A. Project Architect Will Harrison, Design Team Ted Singer, Design Team Interior designer: Michelle Timberlake, CID of Carter + Burton Architecture Exterior Sculpture: Richard Lew 540-662-7580 Art Installations: Jonathanfeldschuh www.jonathanfeldschuh.com Engineer(s): Painter Lewis Engineering Winchester, Virginia Landscape Design: Frank McDonald of Riverhill / Halbea Nursery Stephen’s City, Virginia Custom concrete spa: design / build by Jeff Densic General contractor: Owner with assistance from
This building, originally an unassuming, three-story warehouse, was part of a thriving tobacco industry that socially and economically defined the South Boston, Virginia, community in the early 20th century.