Jul 04 - The SBC switching station (designed by Paul Kennon, 1978), modernist architecture in Columbus, Indiana
Columbus is the home of Cummins Engine Co., whose chairman struck a deal with city hall in the late 50s: a Cummins-established foundation pays any Columbus client's design fees if the client hires an architect from a compiled list of firms (the best). Now Columbus has public buildings designed by Robert Venturi, I M Pei, Eero Saarinen, Richard Meier, Cesar Pelli, et al. In '91 the American Institute of Architects conducted a member poll ranking US cities on architectural quality and innovation, and this town of 39,000 ranked 6th after Chicago, NYC, DC, San Francisco, and Boston.
- I learned recently that there could be a level of depleted uranium contamination in Columbus from a nearby former missile testing range.
Jul 04 - The SBC switching station (designed by Paul Kennon, 1978), modernist architecture in Columbus, Indiana
Columbus is the home of Cummins Engine Co., whose chairman struck a deal with city hall in the late 50s: a Cummins-established foundation pays any Columbus client's design fees if the client hires an architect from a compiled list of firms (the best). Now Columbus has public buildings designed by Robert Venturi, I M Pei, Eero Saarinen, Richard Meier, Cesar Pelli, et al. In '91 the American Institute of Architects conducted a member poll ranking US cities on architectural quality and innovation, and this town of 39,000 ranked 6th after Chicago, NYC, DC, San Francisco, and Boston.
- I learned recently that there could be a level of depleted uranium contamination in Columbus from a nearby former missile testing range.