Designs Unveiled for New $400M State Government Office Building Downtown
Excerpt: Last week the state’s Art and Architectural Review Board (AARB) voted to approve preliminary plans for the new Commonwealth Courts Building proposed for 900-908 E. Main St.
The new courts building would replace the entire Pocahontas Building complex along Main Street with a new, 300,000-square-foot structure that’d house both the Supreme Court of Virginia and the Virginia Court of Appeals. Last summer the AARB voted to approve demolishing the roughly 100-year-old West Tower of the Pocahontas Building to make way for the new, 13-story courts building.
Local architecture firm Baskervill is leading the design of the new courts building with D.C.’s Fentress Architects, and representatives from both firms provided the AARB a first-look at the Commonwealth Courts Building at last week’s meeting. After some deliberation, the AARB voted to approve the preliminary design.
