Feature Stories
Learning Barge Project Wins $75,000 EPA P3 Award for Sustainable Design
Monday, May 7, 2007A team of University of Virginia architecture and engineering students won the EPA’s prestigious Third Annual P3 (People, Prosperity and the Planet) Award in the National Sustainable Design Expo, a student design contest for sustainability, held on the Washington, D.C. Mall on April 24 and 25. U.Va.’s entry, “The Learning Barge: Environmental + Cultural Ecologies on the Elizabeth River,” was one of six projects to be recognized with Sustainability Design Awards of $75,000.
Alumni Design Memorials: Three Projects
Wednesday, August 16, 2006Alumni of the school design three prominent memorial projects: the Northeastern University Veteran’s Memorial in Boston, MA; the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset, PA; and the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial in Washington D.C.
Rehabilitating Homes and Hope: School of Architecture Students and Faculty Contribute to Gulf Coast Relief Efforts
Friday, March 17, 2006As most university students were preparing for the start of the spring semester, a group of undergraduate students from the School of Architecture with a graduate student from the School of Engineering and Applied Science were helping with the ongoing post-Katrina clean-up in greater New Orleans.
