UVa Rotunda transforms into planetarium — for one day only Thomas Jefferson always dreamed of turning the ceiling of his Rotunda into a planetarium. He never did, but three UVa doctoral students ...

The University of Virginia’s Rotunda stands as Jefferson’s masterpiece and may be the greatest building in the United States.

Thomas Jefferson's Rotunda at the University of Virginia is ensnared in a spider's web of scaffolding these days, the focus of a $58.3 million renovation of the World Heritage Site.