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Exhibit Columbus announces Miller Prize winners and University Design Research Fellows for fifth cycle

2024-10-07T10:24:00-04:00

Recipients of the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize and University Design Research Fellows (UDRF) have been announced for the fifth cycle of Exhibit Columbus ahead of next year’s event in Columbus, Indiana.

Each will produce installations responding to the previously announced theme 'Yes, And', which calls for participants to "work from existing materials to shape positive change.”

The four Miller Prize recipients will work with a paired institution at sites around the city to create installations that serve as the focal point of the 2025 exhibition. They include:

Adaptive Operations (Chicago, Illinois) Site: The Crump Theatre
AD—WO (Brooklyn, New York) Site: The former Irwin Block Building
Studio Barnes (Miami, Florida) Site: The Jackson Street Parking Garage
Studio Cooke John (New York, NY) Site: The First Christian Church Sunken Courtyard

Five curatorial partners were able to choose from 50 submissions to a national open-call. The six teams they selected will each expand on current...

Gensler and Moody Nolan debut terminal design for Columbus International Airport

2023-08-25T15:28:00-04:00

Gensler has revealed plans for a new terminal design for John Glenn Columbus International Airport (CMH) in Columbus, Ohio. The project replaces an existing terminal from 1958 and is aimed at enhancing the regional economy of the state’s capital in the interest of “Connecting Ohio with the World.”

Columbus-based architects Moody Nolan will join the project as a design partner. The construction is necessary to meet the demands placed on the airport by Columbus’ expected demographic change, which will see the population of what is now the Midwest’s fastest-growing city expand to over 3 million by the year 2050.

Image courtesy Columbus Regional Airport Authority

The ‘Y’ form of the design is meant to mirror the confluence of nearby Olentangy and Scioto River while “symbolizing the fluid pathways taken by travelers and the connectivity.” Visitors will move from a ground-level entrance lobby through ticketing and security and into the main concourse’s retail plaza framed by a central gran...

Ohio State researchers use machine learning to create 3D digital models of lost historic neighborhoods

2023-07-21T12:38:00-04:00

A team of researchers from The Ohio State University has developed a machine learning technique that converts old urban maps into three-dimensional digital models. According to the team, the models could potentially revolutionize research involving historic neighborhoods and the economic impact of their demolition.

The study, recently published in the journal PLOS ON, involved extracting and digitizing data from Sanborn Fire Insurance maps. The maps, created during the 19th and 20th centuries and frequently updated, were used by fire insurance companies to estimate their liabilities in about 12,000 U.S. cities and towns.

"We now have the ability to unlock the wealth of data that are embedded in these Sanborn fire atlases," said Ohio State Geography Professor Harvey Miller, a co-author of the study. "It enables a whole new approach to urban historical res...

The Mellon Foundation's Monuments Project awards $25 million worth of grant funding to 9 municipalities

2023-06-19T10:00:00-04:00

A total of nine local municipalities have received funding in the amount of $25 million from the Mellon Foundation as part of its ongoing Monuments Project, which to date has provided $151.9 million worth of grants since its inception in 2020.

The latest round of funding includes projects such as Los Angeles’ forthcoming memorial to victims of the 1871 Chinese Massacre, and the Portland, Oregon, effort to replace five of its toppled monuments that were destroyed in the wake of the George Floyd protests three summers ago.

Read more about the nine grant recipients and their funded projects:

Asheville, North Carolina – "The City of Asheville will receive funding to reshape Pack Square Plaza through commemorative projects, storytelling and oral history initiatives, and redesigning portions of the plaza to better represent the multicultural histories of Asheville and cultivate a more welcoming space for all. This includes support for construction of Boosting the Block, an effort to estab...

Janet Echelman’s 229-foot-long floating Current installation debuts in Columbus, Ohio

2023-06-07T18:38:00-04:00

Artist Janet Echelman’s soft-fiber Current installation premiered over the weekend in Columbus, Ohio, adding the city to a list of others to have showcased her experiments with site-specific sculptures and computational design since 2009.

Stretching to a total of 126 feet at its zenith, the 229-foot-long sculpture is made from 78 miles of twine strewn into more than 550,000 individual knots and cast from the facades of buildings located at the intersection of Gay and High Streets.

Current by Janet Echelman. Photo by Infinite Impact © Janet Echelman Inc.

Echelman says she “absorbed” herself in Columbus’ local history for the creation of the commission, which has seen antecedents installed in Oslo, Santiago, New York, and other major metropolises on three continents so far.

Current by Janet Echelman. Photo by Infinite Impact © Janet Echelman Inc.

She describes further: “I witnessed exceptional cooperation to achiev...

Artist Janet Echelman will transform downtown Columbus this summer with a 229-foot-long floating sculpture

2023-04-07T17:41:00-04:00

Sculptor Janet Echelman will transform the skyline of Columbus, Ohio with a newly-announced commission set to debut this June.

Her soft fiber piece, titled Current, expands on past experiments with architecture and computational design and will stretch to 126 feet at its pinnacle. The 229-foot-long sculpture is made from 78 miles of twine strewn into more than 550,000 individual knots and cast from the facades of buildings located at the intersection of Gay and High Streets.

Image courtesy Studio Echelman

Echelman says she “drew inspiration from the evolution of downtown Columbus and its role throughout history as a place of innovation and light.” Her latest commission will be the first permanent piece to be suspended over street level, following temporary installations in Munich, Santiago, New York, and two other continents.

“When I approach a new project, I start by diving into the history of the place,” Echelman said. "I became absorbed in Columbus’ historical narrative and quickl...

LAA Office transforms Columbus, Indiana street into vibrant public art space

2021-11-01T15:22:00-04:00

LAA Office, a Columbus, Indiana-based multi-disciplinary design studio, has unveiled its transformation of a street in downtown Columbus into a new arts district. Called 6th Street Arts Alley, the project was realized in collaboration with the Columbus Area Arts Council.

This project aimed to both establish greater connectivity between establishments and reinvigorate undervalued spaces between buildings along 6th Street, an area that is home to a burgeoning arts and design scene with several community organizations, creative businesses, and studios.

LAA Office introduced 10,000 square feet of street improvements, with the most notable addition being a vibrant, geometric ground mural made alongside student and community volunteers. Another mural on the south façade of the historic Odd Fellows building by artist Nick Abstract was also added. Additionally, a custom collection of modular furniture designed by LAA Office and moveable planters by Anova Furnishings are featured. Together ...

Moody Nolan is donating a home to 11 different cities as part of its Legacy House Project

2021-07-28T12:25:00-04:00

The firm, cofounded in 1982 by Moody’s father, Curt, and now the largest Black-owned architecture firm in the U.S., moved to refocus its giving on a more tangible outcome. The firm’s architects decided to put their money where their skills are and created the Legacy House project, a planned annual gift that will grant a free home to a family in need in one of the 11 cities where Moody Nolan has offices.

The high cost of homeownership is an increasingly large social and political issue that other architects are addressing with a variety of different experimental housing models.

Moody Nolan was compelled to the measure after re-examining the tangible impacts of its annual donations in each of the communities in which it has an office. Housing stocks in the Columbus area are at an all-time low.

The first two homes are in Ohio and Nashville, Tennessee respectively. Each property will be mortgage-free. The firm has said it would like others to take its lead in donating space in the cities they, too, called home.

Fast Company has more on the program here.

Take a look at Exhibit Columbus' 2020-21 Miller Prize Installations

2021-03-31T18:56:00-04:00

Exhibit Columbus recently presented the featured designers of the 2020-2021 exhibition cycle in an accessible four-session virtual format. Curated by Iker Gil and Mimi Zeiger, this year's theme New Middles: From Main Street To Megalopolis, What Is The Future of The Middle City? highlights the work of the most recent J. Irwin and Xenia Miller Prize winners, University Design Research Fellows, and a Columbus High School Design Team.

To learn more about the thirteen design teams, check out Archinect's coverage of the March 19th and March 26th Design Presentations.

2020-21 Exhibit Columbus J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Installations

In Part 1 of Archinect's installation preview, we took a look at the upcoming creations by the seven University Design Research Fellows and the High School Design Team.

Listed below are the proposed site-specific installations by the five 2021 Miller Prize-winning designers, Dream the Combine of Minneapolis, ecosistema urbano of Miami and Madrid, Fut...

Exhibit Columbus' 2021 site installations showcase the work of University Design Research Fellows and nine high school students

2021-03-31T09:00:00-04:00

Exhibit Columbus' virtual presentations allowed the public to join in online and listen to thirteen presentations from the event's University Design Research Fellows, High School Design Team, and J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize winners.

Exhibit Columbus has shared project renders for eight site-specific installations developed by the University Design Research Fellows and High School Design Team for an exclusive preview.

2020-2021 University Design Research Fellowship Installations

For this year's iteration, seven fellowships were awarded to leading professors of architecture, landscape architecture, and design from seven universities. Each installation highlights the research of each individual. Fellows were selected for their "ability to tackle specific sets of issues germane to the future of the city and the Mississippi Watershed region, such as sustainability and material reuse, non-human habitat, watershed ecologies, emergent technologies, and migration."

Derek Hoeferlin — W...

Nearly three decades old, Eisenman's (still laser-less) Greater Columbus Convention Center revisited

2019-01-09T14:35:00-05:00

With full theatrical trappings—nu-age Philip Glass music, smoke machines, mood lighting--the Eisenman team unveiled to the crowd a scale model of the building, which produced a light show to rival a Laser Floyd spectacular. These dozen red-hued Death Star beams [...] were to be placed on the building and neighboring structures, flashing, blinking, sweeping across downtown like some insane city-scale laser security system. Three years later, it was opened. Sans lasers.

Nathan Eddy, architecture documentary director and most recently a driving force to save Philip Johnson and John Burgee’s AT&T Building in New York, pens a delightful review of Peter Eisenman's 1990 competition-winning proposal for the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio.

"Forget the Bilbao Effect—today’s clients demand the Instagram Effect, with architects all but forced to include social media experiences into their designs," writes Eddy. "In 2018, a quarter century feels like forever ago, and Eisenman’s building, with its peculiar colors, slanted walls and cocky posturing, is still somehow both out of and ahead of its time, a futuristic anachronism."

Modernist Columbia, IN building finds new life as architecture school outpost

2018-05-04T13:42:00-04:00

Next fall, Indiana University announced Monday, the building will house the university’s new master of architecture program, serving as an outpost of the flagship Bloomington campus 36 miles to the west. But this will be no ordinary outpost. Columbus, a small-town architectural mecca, boasts buildings by such renowned architects as Eliel and Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei and Chicago’s Harry Weese.

Blair Kamin tells the story of the former The Republic newspaper building—a modernist gem designed by SOM partner Myron Goldsmith and opened in 1971—which will soon find a second life as Indiana University's new architecture graduate program studio in Columbus, Indiana.

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Spring '18

2018-01-17T13:30:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2018

Archinect's Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Check out who will be speaking in The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture's Baumer Lecture Series for the Spring 2018 term.

Jan 10
Adam Marcus and Andrew Kudless / California College of the Arts

Jan 17
Caroline Levine / Cornell University

Jan 24
Todd Gannon and Joe Day / Ohio State University and SCI-Arc

Jan 31
Andrew Zago / Zago Architecture

Feb 14
Tom Sanchez / Virginia Tech

Feb 21
Kate Cullity / Taylor Cullity Lethlean

Feb 28
Henri Bava / Agence Ter

Mar 7
William O'Brien, Jr. / MIT

Mar 21
Wonne Ickx / PRODUCTORA

Mar 28
Kristi Cheramie / The Ohio State Univ...

Architecture & Film; A conversation with Kogonada and Kyle Bergman

2017-08-31T17:58:00-04:00

On this week's show we talk to Kogonada, the writer and director of the critically-acclaimed film Columbus, and Kyle Bergman, founder of the Architecture & Design Film Festival.

Left: Kogonada, Photo by Kyle Flubacker; Right: Kyle Bergman

Our conversation with Kogonada touches on his inspirations and video-essay work prior to this spectacular debut feature-length film (currently 98% on Rotten Tomatoes!), his experience growing up in a midwest immigrant household and his passion for bringing architecture to film.

Kyle Bergman, who is also a practicing architect, shares his backstory behind the Architecture & Design Film Festival, and tells us about some of the very exciting new films that will be screening at the upcoming festivals in Whitefish, Montana in September and NYC in November.

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The designer that Columbus, a film featuring numerous Modernist icons, forgot about

2017-08-25T16:11:00-04:00

The Miller House and Garden, now owned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, is acknowledged as one of the greatest Modernist collaborations. This thirteen-acre property was developed between 1953 and 1957 as a unified design through the close teamwork of Kiley, architects Eero Saarinen and Kevin Roche, interior designer Alexander Girard (who is acknowledged in the film), and clients J. Irwin and Xenia Miller.

The recent film Columbus is centered around a love story of a son of a renowned architecture critic stuck in a small Midwestern town and a 'young architecture enthusiast' who works at the local library. Taking place in mid-century Modernism mecca, Columbus, IN, the motion picture spares plenty of spectacular views of iconic Modernist sites: the Miller House, North Christian Church (1964), Cummins Inc. Irwin Office Building (1954), First Christian Church (1942), and Columbus Regional Hospital Mental Health Center (1972). The characters, surprisingly, do not fail to acknowledge the architects at each location—there are mentions of Eero and Eliel Saarinen, James Polshek... However, Dan Kiley, whose landscapes are often the movie's pivotal settings, got left out and never once credited.

Kiley designed more projects in Columbus than any architect—over thirty landscapes which among many others include the Art Institute of Chicago, South Garden (1962), Jefferson National Expansion Expansio...

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Fall '17

2017-08-23T12:49:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2017

Ready or not, the start of the new school year is coming up. Back for Fall 2017 is Archinect's Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The Ohio State University, Knowlton School of Architecture will launch their Fall '17 lecture series next Wednesday. Speakers include Nader Tehrani, Nicholas de Monchaux, Jackilin Hah Bloom, and the one and only Rem Koolhaas.

Aug 30
Ian Bogost / Georgia Institute of Technology

Sept 6
Teresa Galí-Izard / Arquitectura Agronomica

Sept 13
Jason Reece / The Ohio State University

Sept 20
Andrew Holder / The Los Angeles Design Group

Sept 27
Nader Tehrani / The Cooper Union

Oct 4
Joann Bacon / Allies and Morrison

Oct 1...

Winners of the Exhibit Columbus Miller Prize announced

2017-01-11T12:33:00-05:00

Exhibit Columbus, an “annual exploration of architecture, art, design, and community created to celebrate Columbus’ extraordinary design heritage”, has announced the winners of its inaugural Miller Prize. Named after J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller, the prize comes with the opportunity to building a temporary installation on one of five sites in the city. The five winners were selected from a large pool that was eventually narrowed down to 10 finalists, each of whom presented their concepts in a public forum at the Columbus City Hall.

The winners are:

studio:indigenous (Chris Cornelius) — First Christian Church by Saarinen and Saarinen (1942)

“Inspired by the dwellings of the Miyaamia people indigenous to Indiana, Cornelius adorns a walkway leading to First Christian Church with a contemporary “wigwam” - wiikiaami in the Miyaamia language - constructed of rebar and copper scales. The swooping conical form is aligned both to the church’s iconic campanile and to mark the autumnal equin...

One-to-One #41 with Deborah Berke

2016-10-10T14:58:00-04:00

The small town of Columbus, Indiana is packed with the works of famous modernist architects, but unlike cities like New York or Chicago, Columbus’s pedigree isn’t so often brought into the national architectural discourse. Exhibit Columbus, a new symposium and exhibition happening annually in the city, is hoping to change that.

Deborah Berke, architect and dean at Yale, has worked extensively in Indiana and was a keynote speaker at this year's inaugural Exhibit Columbus symposium. She joined me on the podcast to reflect on the local and regional influences of Columbus, Indiana, and the impact they've had on her career.

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Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Fall '16

2016-09-13T12:58:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2016

Gearing up for another eventful school year this fall? Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss. Mark those calendars!

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

This fall, the Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University will feature lectures from leading practitioners like DLANDstudio's Susannah Drake, Peter Eisenman, Ryue Nishizawa, Paul Lewis of LTL Architects, and don't miss a conversation between Robert A.M. Stern and Paul Goldberger.

Below are upcoming lectures.

Sept 14
Margaret Dewar / University of Michigan
5:30pm at Gui Auditorium / Knowlton Hall

Sept 21
Susannah Drake / DLANDstudio
5:30pm at Gui Auditorium / Knowlton ...

Columbus, Ohio wins DOT's $50M Smart City Challenge

2016-06-23T13:48:00-04:00

Columbus, Ohio, has won a $50m prize for its plans to smarten up its transport system. The money is made up of a $40m Smart Cities grant from the Department of Transportation (DOT), a $90m fund put up by private sector partners and a further $10m from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s charity Vulcan, which will be used to finance electric vehicle infrastructure.

Columbus managed to beat six rival cities that were shortlisted by the DOT earlier this year:

Austin, Texas
Denver, Colorado
Kansas City, Missouri
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Portland, Oregon
San Francisco, California

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Fall '15

2015-09-21T12:56:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2015

Archinect's Get Lectured is ready for another school year. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Our next poster comes from The Ohio State University, Knowlton School of Architecture with their Fall 2015 lecture series, "Energies".

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Listed below are upcoming events. Free and open the public. Unless noted, lectures begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Gui Auditorium (Knowlton Hall, Room 250).

Sept 23
Neil Denari / NMDA

Sept 30
Megan Sandel / Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health

Oct 7
François Roche / R&Sie(n)

Oct 12
Michael Blier / Landworks Studio
at Knowlton Hall Big Stairs

Oct 13
Neil Denari + Robert Somol / Stair Session with Baumer Dist...

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Spring '15

2015-01-16T13:04:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter-Spring 2015

Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session! Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Our next featured poster comes from the Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture with their Spring '15 series, "Mingle"

"To Mingle is to shift states. It implies the ability to equally join and disconnect. It is a deliberate drift, an active movement that prioritizes overlap over blending, bleeding and blurring. In the realm of design and planning, a 'mingler' maintains distinct qualities while seeking productive alternatives. The lecture series includes lecturers that are nimble as they seek innovative ways to forward their respective fields."

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@arc...

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Fall '14

2014-09-09T14:38:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2014

Say hello to another edition of Archinect's Get Lectured! As a refresher, we'll be featuring a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. If you're not doing so already, be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Today's poster features the Fall 2014 Baumer Lecture Series: "TWIST" at The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Below are upcoming lectures only. Unless noted, lectures begin at 5:30 p.m in the Gui Auditorium (Knowlton Hall 250). Free and open to the public.

SEPTEMBER

Sept. 17
Jim Diers / Asset-Based Community Development

OCTOBER

Oct. 1
John Peterson / Public Architecture

Oct. 8
Elena Manferdini / Atelier Manferdini

Oct. 17
Peter Eisenman / Eisenman Architects

Oct. 29
Ashley Schafer / The Ohio State University, Architecture

NOVEMBER

N...

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Spring '14

2014-02-17T13:03:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2014

Archinect's Get Lectured is up and running again for the Winter/Spring '14 term! As a refresher from our Fall 2013 guide, we'll feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current season. Be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Since we've been receiving more submissions lately, we're gonna show off posters more often -- and so you can see what events are happening in architecture schools right now!

Our next poster comes from Ohio State University's Knowlton School of Architecture featuring "Doubling", as part of the Baumer Lecture Series.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Listed below are upcoming lectures only. Free and open to the public. Lectures will take place at 5:30 PM at the Knowlton Hall Auditorium (KN 250), unless noted otherwise.

FEBRUARY

Feb 26
June Manning Thomas / ...

Get Lectured: Knowlton School of Architecture Fall '13

2013-09-10T11:09:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2013

Here on Archinect we just launched "Get Lectured", where we'll feature a school's lecture series--along with their snazzy posters--for the current season. Check back regularly to stay up-to-date and mark your calendars for any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

We'll be starting out with Archinect's Most Followed Schools profiles. For today is the "Loose Fit" Baumer Lecture Series from the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

All lectures are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Unless noted, all lectures will be held at the Knowlton Hall Auditorium (KN 250) at 5:30 pm.

SEPTEMBER

September 4
Ken Smith / WORKSHOP (Ken Smith Landscape Architect):
Larger Landscapes

September 11
Tridib Banerjee / University of Southern California, Price School of Public Pol...

An Unlikely Architecture Hub

2013-05-20T12:35:00-04:00

the Visitors Center lists some 70 structures as “noteworthy”), many designed by a litany of important American architects: I. M. Pei, Harry Weese, Robert A. M. Stern, Richard Meier, Kevin Roche, Robert Venturi, Cesar Pelli and others...

Recently Nancy Kriplen wrote about a visit to Columbus, Ind, for the NYT Sunday travel section. The city was "ranked sixth among the nation’s cities in 1991 for its architectural innovation and design by the American Institute of Architects".

Libeskind's design selected for Columbus Holocaust memorial

2013-05-08T17:58:00-04:00

The specially appointed Holocaust Memorial Artist Selection Committee overwhelmingly favored Daniel Libeskind’s design for an 18-foot tall brushed stainless-steel memorial accompanied by a 40-foot walkway and memorial words etched in limestone.

After a daylong meeting in which the panel heard extensive presentations from all three artists, Richard H. Finan, chairman of the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board, which will make the final decision on the design, strongly opposed Libeskind’s proposal. He said a memorial with a Jewish religious symbol would immediately open the state to legal challenges from the American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations because of the separation of church and state.

Columbus, Ind.: A Midwestern Mecca Of Architecture

2012-08-06T14:21:00-04:00

Columbus, Ind., looks like any other small town, with its small shops and restaurants. But what sets this town apart is its architecture.

Orange Barrel Media Announces LEED Platinum Headquarters in Columbus

2012-04-21T11:46:00-04:00

The new Orange Barrel HQ will reuse existing concrete storage silos and a renovated 10,000-sqft warehouse with a new 10,000-sqft addition. OBM President Pete Scantland says they’re aiming for LEED Platinum certification with the project. Solar panels will be located on the back side of a 120-foot tall structure rising above the new offices, while the front side will provide a showpiece advertising space.

Orange Barrel Media is a nine-year-old outdoor wallscape mural design and advertising firm that serves markets in New York, Boston, Charlotte, Columbus, Denver, Cleveland and Cincinnati. Yesterday, they announced a new headquarters in Columbus that includes an innovative solar-panel advertising tower and 20,000 square feet of space on a former concrete mixing plant adjacent to Downtown.

The new development was designed by George Acock of Acock Associates with Landscape Architecture done by Keith Meyers and his team at MSI+KKG.

Dublin Ohio Plans 1000-acre Urban Development in the Heart of Suburbia

2012-02-04T15:26:00-05:00

The City of Dublin, Ohio is an affluent Columbus suburb typically known for it’s good schools, easy access to jobs, and low density housing and retail developments that have rapidly sprawled outward over the past forty years. Fast forward another forty years and things may look drastically different. Officials with the city’s planning department have been steadily working on the Bridge Street Corridor plan, which calls for the redevelopment of 1,000 acres located at the core of Dublin.

One of the largest suburbs of Columbus, Ohio is planning to give itself an urban face lift with a new long term redevelopment plan. In addition to increase residential density to over 5000 people per square mile, the plan calls for the eventual installation of light rail light to serve local and regional commuters.

Archinect - News

Exhibit Columbus announces Miller Prize winners and University Design Research Fellows for fifth cycle

Gensler and Moody Nolan debut terminal design for Columbus International Airport

Ohio State researchers use machine learning to create 3D digital models of lost historic neighborhoods

The Mellon Foundation's Monuments Project awards $25 million worth of grant funding to 9 municipalities

Janet Echelman’s 229-foot-long floating Current installation debuts in Columbus, Ohio

Artist Janet Echelman​ will transform downtown Columbus this summer with a 229-foot-long floating sculpture

LAA Office transforms Columbus, Indiana street into vibrant public art space

Moody Nolan is donating a home to 11 different cities as part of its Legacy House Project

Take a look at Exhibit Columbus' 2020-21 Miller Prize Installations

Exhibit Columbus' 2021 site installations showcase the work of University Design Research Fellows and nine high school students

Nearly three decades old, Eisenman's (still laser-less) Greater Columbus Convention Center revisited

Modernist Columbia, IN building finds new life as architecture school outpost

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Spring '18

Architecture & Film; A conversation with Kogonada and Kyle Bergman

The designer that Columbus, a film featuring numerous Modernist icons, forgot about

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Fall '17

Winners of the Exhibit Columbus Miller Prize announced

One-to-One #41 with Deborah Berke

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Fall '16

Columbus, Ohio wins DOT's $50M Smart City Challenge

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Fall '15

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Spring '15

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Fall '14

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Spring '14

Get Lectured: Knowlton School of Architecture Fall '13

An Unlikely Architecture Hub

Libeskind's design selected for Columbus Holocaust memorial

Columbus, Ind.: A Midwestern Mecca Of Architecture

Orange Barrel Media Announces LEED Platinum Headquarters in Columbus

Dublin Ohio Plans 1000-acre Urban Development in the Heart of Suburbia

Artist Janet Echelman will transform downtown Columbus this summer with a 229-foot-long floating sculpture