The low-rise Executive Office Building was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, in collaboration with Richmond landscape architect Charles F. Gillette.

[1] It is the headquarters for the Altria Group, formerly known as the Philip Morris Companies, Inc.[2] The property is owned by the University of Richmond.

[3] The headquarters complex is set on a 121-acre (49 ha) site outside of Richmond, once a horse farm, that is now surrounded by suburban development.

Intended as a showcase for the products of the Reynolds Metals Company, the Executive Office Building incorporated aluminum, the company's principal product, wherever possible, principally in the building's exterior cladding, but even in interior furnishings and finishes, where carpets and draperies incorporated aluminum fibers.

The east and west elevations feature bright blue adjustable aluminum louvers for sun control.