LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY IN VIRGINIA ATTRACTS MORE STUDENTS TO THE VISUAL ARTS WITH A GLASSY EXPANSION OF BEDFORD HALL

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What we wrote in our Nov/Dec 2013 issue: When architects renovate a college building, they first must take a history course-especially when the building resides on a campus as venerable as Longwood University's in Farmville, Virginia. The north end of the Longwood campus, which dates back to 1839, is populated with red-brick Jeffersonian buildings and other historic structures. The south end is home to decidedly less revered 1960s-and 1970s-era buildings. When the university brought HCA Architects and Engineers in to design a substantial update and addition to Bedford Hall, home to the arts programs, it was clearthe administration wanted another Jeffersonian building. "It's a small but beautiful campus, and Jefferson is like an architecture god there," says HCA project designer Loren Ahles, FAIA. "The newer buildings, where Bedford Hall is located, are quintessential 'form follows function' and nothing more. They're basically just a collection of boxes."