Rouss & Robertson Halls (UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce) Wins Silver Award, Building Design & Construction Magazine, by Jay W. Schneider

“Rouss Hall, a historic 24,000-sf building designed by Stanford White, served as the home of the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce from 1955 to 1975. Thirty years later, the university unveiled plans to have the business school return to the small, outdated 110-year-old facility, but this time with the addition of a 132,000-sf companion building to be named Robertson Hall. The two facilities would connect around a central courtyard to create one large, 156,000-sf complex, at a cost of $39 million. Most of the academic space is concentrated in the larger Robertson Hall, but both buildings are wireless, are fitted with state-of-the-art videoconferencing and media facilities, and have classrooms and labs with floor boxes for power, audio, visual, data, and phone. Thus, all the furniture can be free-standing and easily rearranged. While the interiors are decidedly 21st century, exteriors hearken back to the 19th century in order to blend with the campus’s iconic Jeffersonian architecture…” Read more at http://www.bdcnetwork.com/article/CA6603405.html. The Architect is Hartman-Cox Architects of Washington, DC..