The Board of Visitors’ Buildings and Grounds Committee convened Thursday afternoon to approve the U.Va. Health Transitional Care Hospital renovation and the namings of 13 exterior spaces at Aggarwall Hall. University Architect Alice Raucher also centered the Committee with a presentation of the architectural design goals for buildings on Grounds, and Raucher walked Committee members through a schematic design review of the Darden Hall renovation for the College at Wise.
The Buildings and Grounds Committee
all the maintenance, design and construction of buildings and land belonging to the University. As many Committee members are new, Raucher provided the context for the University’s architectural goals that permeate the Committee’s work. She harkened its work back to Thomas Jefferson’s intentions when he built the University using precedents from ancient Rome and modern France…