How can Richmond be proactive in drafting and initiating a fresh, imaginative and practical narrative for respecting and building upon the past? Here are three ideas.
Slipek: Three ideas for Richmond’s architectural future (Guest Commentary)
Edwin Slipek
Edwin Slipek is an adjunct instructor in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts and the co-editor of ArchitectureRichmond, an online encyclopedia of regional design.
Architecture review: Handsome new General Assembly Building opens on historic turf
Make no mistake, the legislature’s $292 million, 14-floor office building is the grandest structure built in our community this decade. (Guest Commentary)
Evolving Spaces: Makeovers for GRTC transfer plaza, Lee Circle and 17th Street Market (Guest Commentary)
Our town has architectural depth that can translate into century-old places being repurposed. It’s a mark of Richmond’s age, economics and shifting civic values.
Richmond-reared Lewis Strauss brought to life by Robert Downey Jr. in ‘Oppenheimer’ (Guest Commentary)
Who was Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss Jr.? Aside from being Robert Oppenheimer’s adversary, what most Virginians don’t know is that Strauss was reared in Richmond’s Fan District.
Two intriguing 20th-century Virginia artists get their due (Guest Commentary)
A museum needn’t be limited to collecting things solely from the past. It can affect the creation of future work directly by supporting budding talents.
Welcome to the neighborhood: A review of the new park at the Science Museum (Guest Commentary)
Situated on the north side of Broad between Robinson Street and Terminal Avenue, the modest-sized, but smartly designed and intelligently planted green oasis replaces a surface parking lot that had served both the science and children’s museums.
Future tense: CodeRVA high school designers translate traditions into a hypothetical future campus (Guest Commentary)
Three students walked into an end-of-the semester presentation. They had devised an architectural plan to replace their school. No small order.
The City Center: Toward creating ‘hometown atmosphere’ (Guest Commentary)
The removal of the Coliseum will create a tabula rasa upon which city officials want to establish a mixed-use complex.
City Center pitches: A warm-up for the next round of downtown redevelopment (Guest Commentary)
This is the first of two guest columns by Edwin Slipek that discuss the planning for the new City Center redevelopment of the Coliseum area.
Architecture Review: VCU’s New STEM Building checks many boxes (Guest Commentary)
The new building’s interior delivers big time. But the exterior, sorry to say, is a clunker amidst its domestic-sized Franklin street neighbors — like an over-sized cruise ship docked at a comparatively diminutive port, say Key West or Dubrovnik.