MUSEUMS

Virginia Air and Space Center     Hampton, Virginia

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Located in the waterfront district of downtown Hampton, the Virginia Air and Space Center was designed through an association of Rancorn Wildman Architects with Mitchell/Giurgola Architects of New York. The designers conceived of the building as an important new iconographic structure for the city that animates and connects its surrounding neighborhood with Hamptons renovated main street. The 118,000 square foot museum is dedicated to "exploration and discovery" past and present, spanning the centuries between the 1610 settlement of English colonists in the area and modern space exploration, which to a great extent began at the original location of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Hampton.

Project of the Millennium Design Award, 2000 - HRACRE
Award for Excellence in Design - AIA Hampton Roads
Civic Improvement Award - City of Hampton