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- The National Audiovisual Conservation Center, also known as the Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation, is the Library of Congress' new audiovisual archive located inside Mount Pony in Culpeper, Virginia. From 1969 to 1988, the facility was a high security storage facility operated by the Federal Reserve Board. With the approval of the United States Congress in 1997, it was purchased by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond via a $5.5 million dollar grant, done on behalf of the Library of Congress. With a further $150 million from the Packard Humanities Institute and $82.1 million from Congress, the facility was transformed into the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, which completed construction in mid-2007, and after transfer of the bulk of archives, opened scheduled tours and visitors in fall 2008. The center offered, for the first time, a single site to store all 6.3 million pieces of the library's movie, television, and sound collection. The NAVCC design, named Best of 2007 by MidAtlantic Construction Magazine, involved upgrading the existing bunker and creating an entirely new, below-ground entry building that also includes a large screening room, office space and research facilities. Designers BAR Architects, project-architect SmithGroup and landscape designers SWA Group, along with DPR Construction, Inc. , collaborated in what is now the largest green-roofed commercial facility in the Eastern United States, blending into the surrounding environment and ecosystem.
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