Edwin Slipek News Today

This is the second of columnist Edwin Slipek’s two-part feature of prominent local personalities and leaders who passed away in 2023.

Subconsciously most of us know when something is well designed. It works or it doesn’t. It attracts or annoys. It is comfortable or alienating, memorable or forgettable. But good architecture critics, such as Mr. Slipek, help us understand why.

History is not necessarily being rewritten in Richmond, Virginia, but there is a compelling new chapter in the works. The state capital, once the capi

Visitors to Virginia’s capital will find a Monument Avenue devoid of Confederate statues, a lively dining scene featuring more Black-owned restaurants, and exhibitions that take on the city’s complicated past.

In the mind's eye of many locals, the leafy and lively environs of Libbie and Grove avenues is a reassuringly comfortable blend of golf, gastronomy and God. While many take comfort that architectural and social change occurs slowly in such tony enclaves, in Westhampton look again.

American Institute of Architects Virginia (AIA Virginia) has bestowed its highest honor, the chapter's architectural medal for Virginia service to Storefront for Community Design, at...

The preservation and adaptive reuse of VUU’s Industrial Hall is one of the most important and challenging reclamation projects facing Northside Richmond.

Completed in 2021 in Richmond, United States. Images by Iwan Baan. “the Kitchens at Reynolds delivers a new kind of monument where brilliant, smart and highly practical architecture is a tool for enhancing community...

André Gregory, at left, who plays himself, the sophisticated title character in “My Dinner with André,” and his co-star and co-author, the more down-to-earth Wallace Shawn, donned ski wear under their clothing to stay warm during the Richmond filming in December 1980. Recently while heading east on Monument Avenue, past scarred granite stubs at four intersections, I remember the Confederate imagery that once crowned those plinths. Then, passing the Jefferson Hotel I wonder: Do hotel vis...