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Lyn Warren unveils Les Yeux du Monde’s newest home off Stony Point Road. W.G. Clark designed the gallery, and its steel exterior will rust to a red over the next year.
Eye-catching Les Yeux
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The crash of Piedmont Flight 349 wasn’t Charlottesville’s only disaster in the autumn of 1959. On the afternoon of September 30, a tornado ripped through two occupied houses on an orchard near Ivy, killing 10 of 14 members of one family and a neighbor. One more died in Dyke, so 12 people total, according to the Crozet Gazette. (0)
Nearly three years after opening a full-scale fitness center in downtown Charlottesville to join its 64,000 square-foot flagship location at Albemarle Square Shopping Center, ACAC is expanding again with the opening of a smaller Crozet gym in the Old Trail Development. At a preview on Thursday October 8, according to ACAC VP of development Chris Craytor, approximately 300 people showed up to check out the 8,500 square-foot space located under Old Trail’s clock tower.
Supposedly, they broke up, but after a “Mothership” concert in March, Phish is now coming to Charlottesville, says a release from the John Paul Jones arena. (8)
Lyn Warren unveils Les Yeux du Monde’s newest home off Stony Point Road. W.G. Clark designed the gallery, and its steel exterior will rust to a red over the next year. (7)
Most people can only imagine making it to 100, but for Raymon Thacker, that milestone becomes reality this week. Scottsville’s mayor emeritus, Thacker, who’s lived in the tiny Albemarle County hamlet for the past 98 years and served as mayor for 30 of those, is not just turning 100 this weekend– he’s doing it in style by throwing a party for hundreds on Sunday, October 11.
“I’m anticipating a really big turn-out,” says Thacker, who sent out 500 invitations and is also welcoming the general public. “I wanted to invite everyone, whether you’re good, bad or indifferent, and just show them a good time,” he explains.
Thacker first moved to Scottsville at age two. He graduated from Scottsville School, attended Gupton Jones College of Mortuary Science in Tennessee, then returned home to open Thacker Bros. Funeral Home, which he operated until his retirement in 1998. Thacker served on Scottsville Town Council for eight years More… (4)
Hideous!
State of the art 1970s design
Fantastic! Love WG, and love his work.
Did he just ripoff that new Arch’s on 29?
Is this at the same location as the modern house that cleared so many trees it left a scar in the landscape and can be seen all over town ?
Meg, you mean Monticello?
Oh I dunno, steel that protects itself by rusting is pretty cool. But steel is a notorious heat conductor, a miserable choice as house cladding. Boiling steel pot in summer; icebox in winter–heating and cooling bills will reach astounding extremes. If Les Yeux du Monde likes boxy sculpture, fine. But the eyes of the world will avert from the embarassment of architecture that rejects (or never troubled to learn) the hard won lessons of our elders and betters, about what building shapes and materials suit our climate.