Campus Architecture Database: Rouss and Robertson Halls

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

Building Type: Academic

Construction Type: New

Cost: $70.5-million

Square Footage: 156,370

Architect: Hartman-Cox Architects; Nelson Byrd Woltz

Contractor: Gilbane Building Company

Opened: 2008

The newly constructed Robertson Hall adjoins the renovated Rouss Hall, designed by Stanford White, on the university’s central Lawn. Designed to house the university’s business school, as well as to encourage interdisciplinary learning and faculty-student interaction, the two buildings together have classrooms, group-study rooms, a reading and dining facility, meeting spaces, faculty offices, conference rooms, a suite for student clubs, and four technology labs.

(Photo: Philip Beaurline Photography)

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