Publisher: WorldArchitectureNews.com
Location: Charlottesville, VA
The Thomas Jefferson Visitor and Smith Education Center at Monticello has been awarded LEED Gold by the U.S. Green Building Council. Designed by Baltimore architects Ayers Saint Gross, the center is a modern reinforcement of the many vernacular aspects of Jefferson’s architecture. Nestled in the forested hillside a quarter mile from the historic house, the visitor center exists as a village of buildings sitting lightly in the landscape, each rising one storey above the previous.
