Candace M.P. Smith Architect

06/06/2026

Feel free to add comments (open until June 15) to express your thoughts on the "Triumphal Arch" (Trump Arch....ick)

ParkPlanning - Triumphal Arch - Section 106 Assessment of Effect and Draft Programmatic Agreement

05/18/2026

Afghans who supported and protected Americans are being denied entry and visas to our country despite their service to us and promises to them. Not just "slow walking" the process but essentially freezing the process--this is destroying any credibility we had where our intelligence agencies could count on local support in a foreign country. Why would anyone support us with such blatant disregard for what was promised and should be provided??? Trump's policies and administration are despicable.

02/11/2025

It’s important to bear in mind that Trump got 49.8% of the popular vote— which means of the Americans who voted, 50.2% did not support him. 

04/20/2023

Yes indeed— access for more people

I'd like to see these at more beaches.

05/04/2020

The local paper, The Daily Progress, published results from their Readers’ Choices—I was pleasantly surprised to find our firm listed in First Place.

Very humbled by whoever put our name forward— thank you so much!

Now we just need the paper to spell the first name correctly—but it’s all good.

10/22/2019

My whole office volunteered for the United Way Day of Caring this year, as we have for the past several decades. This year we had the pleasure of helping an elementary school re-design the playground that was re-topped with asphalt leaving us a "blank slate". Working with the gym teacher at Broadus Wood Elementary we designed and laid out colorful 4-squares, a "mirror me" game, snakes & ladders, and re-painted their map of the U.S.--adding mountains and rivers. So fortunate to work with such talented, caring, dedicated people!

Here are some before, during and after photos--

06/06/2019

Had so much fun with the office and several U.Va. students (thank you!) planning and painting (well, re-painting) some planters and picnic tables at Crozet Elementary School last September 2018 for the United Way Day of Caring. The planters are the four seasons, with radiating rainbow stripes in the pavement at the courtyard. The two picnic tables became lessons in the water cycle, and the circle of life for seeds to plants and back again. Architects are artists too!

04/22/2019

Just completed an extraordinary trip to Haiti (near Cap Haitien) with Soaring Unlimited (out of Michigan/Michigan State) and Building Goodness Foundation (Charlottesville). Planning a women's health center/birthing center and had the official "ground breaking" ceremony.

The local Mayor also arrived and we had a chance to share the drawings with him and "walk" through the building which had been staked out with flags so the different areas and porches could be visualized on the site.

Still have significant fundraising to do, but getting closer to the construction start.

Am so impressed with Soaring's dedication (have been in Haiti for almost 20 years, and created a medical clinic that is fully staffed by Haitians), their director Laura Elliott, and the amazing knowledge and care that their board brings to the table.

Building Goodness Foundation has done just that--building goodness in communities--and I look forward to working with them on this and future projects.

09/08/2017

Candace M.P. Smith Architect is proud to support the Virginia Athletic Foundation, with an ad in the football program this season. The win over William and Mary on Saturday was a great start to the season - Go Hoos!

03/02/2017

A small site expands outdoor living with a new deck. New dining room doors open to the Ipe deck with custom powder-coated metal railings and a new blue-stone walk.