Marlon Blackwell is joining the ranks of notable names—I.M Pei, Harry Weese, Kevin Roche, Robert Venturi, and Deborah Berke among them—to design a municipal project in Columbus, Indiana.
Recently selected through a competition in which fellow shortlisted finalists included Höweler + Yoon, SO–IL, and Snow Kreilich, the commission won by Blackwell’s eponymous Fayetteville, Arkansas-based firm is a unique one: a new air traffic control tower at the Columbus Municipal Airport, a public facility located roughly three miles north of the small but architecture-famous city’s downtown core. While the $11.5 million project, funded in part by a grant from the Cummins Foundation Architecture Program, is the AIA Gold Medal–winning architect’s first in Columbus, it’s not his first in the Hoosier State. In 2010, Blackwell’s design for the Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion was completed at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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