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.
Dovetail Construction Company
City: Richmond
Date: 1907/2010
Architect: Walter Parks Architect
County: Richmond
Image Credit: Lee Brauer
United States Air Force Memorial
City: Arlington
Date: 2006
Architect: James Ingo Freed (Pei Cobb Freed and Partners)
County: Arlington
Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History
City: Danville
Date: 1859
Architect: Major William T. Southerlin
County: Danville
Rice’s Hotel/Hughlett’s Tavern
City: Heathsville
Date: 1795
Architect: John Hughlett
County: Northumberland
Reston Town Center
City: Reston
Date: 1990
Architect: Sasaki and RTKL
County: Fairfax
Taubman Museum of Art
City: Roanoke
Date: 2008
Architect: Randall Stout Architects
County: Roanoke
Duke Hall School of Art & Art History Renovation, James Madison University
City: Harrisonburg
Date: 2013
Architect: Clark Nexsen – Architect of Record; GUND Partnership – Design Architect
County: Rockingham
Mount Vernon
City: Alexandria
Date: 1757-78
Architect: George Washington
County: Fairfax
Berkeley Plantation
City: Charles City
Date: 1726
Architect: Benjamin Harrison
County: Charles City
Riddick’s Folly House
City: Suffolk
Date: 1837
Architect: Mills Riddick
County: Suffolk
Garth Newel Music Center
City: Hot Springs
Date: 1923
Architect: William Sergeant Kendall Christine Herter Kendall
County: Bath
Virginia Air and Space Center
City: Hampton
Date: 1992
Architect: Rancorn Wildman Architects PLC with Mitchell/Giurgola Architects
County: Hampton