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Richmond / Delta Hotels by Marriott Richmond Downtown

Delta Hotels by Marriott Richmond Downtown, built as Crowne Plaza Hotel in 1986, is a knife-edged red high-rise squeezed between East Canal Street and a Downtown Expressway on-ramp. The building’s shape is dictated by the odd shape of the site. The striking ribbon-windowed design was described as “architecturally ingenious in how it squeezes a big […]

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Richmond / Old City Hall

Richmond’s Old City Hall is an architectural and, to a degree, governmental landmark. The winning design was scrapped because the $300,000 cost was deemed too expensive. The city then accepted a more modest proposal from a different architect, only to reverse course again to build Elijah Myers’ Gothic design. The actual cost wound up more

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Richmond / Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond is among Richmond’s tallest buildings, and visually a near-twin of Dominion Energy’s One James River Plaza building, which was demolished in 2020. The skyscraper was designed by Minoru Yamasaki, the architect who designed New York’s ill-fated World Trade Center towers. Interesting factoid: Almost half of the building’s total square footage,

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Richmond / Virginia Housing

Virginia Housing is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing affordable housing. I haven’t found any details about their headquarters on Gambles Hill. Name:  Virginia Housing Location:  601 South Belvidere Street Style:  Postmodern Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos taken October 2019 with Canon 5D Mark iv

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Richmond / Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU

Institute for Contemporary Art, aka Markel Center, is part of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Monroe Park Campus. The ultra-modern design is also ultra-environmentally conscious, with green roofs, geothermal heating and cooling, and glass insulating walls combined with recycled metal panels. Name:  Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU, Markel Center Location:  601 West Broad Street

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Richmond / First National Bank Building

First National Bank Building was Richmond’s first high-rise building, according to the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Surprisingly (to me, at least), this 1913 landmark was built as a bank but commissioned by a railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. The massive brick-and-stone building is an example how architects originally envisioned high-rise buildings – as

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