Cost: $3.6 million
Completion: August 2005

The Charlottesville Pavilion is a great example of successful value engineering. Martin Horn was hired before the architects, and worked closely with them throughout the project to reduce the total cost by 25%—without sacrificing function.

The Pavilion is a unique and complicated structure. To build it, we had to import 120 tons of steel and 34,718 square feet of fabric, and supervise a crew of Hungarian Mountaineers to stretch the fabric over the frame. Even after the fabric was damaged in a storm, Martin Horn completed the job in time for the first concert.