Columbus, Indiana, selects Merritt Chase for Downtown Entrance Plaza Redesign

The City of Columbus, Indiana, known as a Midwest jewel box of Midcentury modern architecture, has selected landscape architecture and urban design firm Merritt Chase to redesign a 1.5-acre Downtown Entrance Plaza. The Pittsburgh- and Indianapolis-based team will be tasked with improving an underutilized site split in half by busy State Road 46 based on a landscape design completed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates back in 2000.The Columbus Design Institute, on behalf of the City of Columbus, issued an RFQ for the assignment earlier this year.Catch up on Archinect's extensive Exhibit Columbus coverage here. Read the full post on Bustler

Columbus, Indiana, selects Merritt Chase for Downtown Entrance Plaza Redesign

The City of Columbus, Indiana, known as a Midwest jewel box of Midcentury modern architecture, has selected landscape architecture and urban design firm Merritt Chase to redesign a 1.5-acre Downtown Entrance Plaza. 

The Pittsburgh- and Indianapolis-based team will be tasked with improving an underutilized site split in half by busy State Road 46 based on a landscape design completed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates back in 2000.

The Columbus Design Institute, on behalf of the City of Columbus, issued an RFQ for the assignment earlier this year.

Catch up on Archinect's extensive Exhibit Columbus coverage here. Read the full post on Bustler