Arkansas structure studio Marlon Blackwell Architects has unveiled designs for an air site visitors management tower for Columbus Municipal Airport in Indiana.
At 129 ft tall (39 metres), the mission will exchange an current 80-year-old, 78-foot-tall (23 metre) tower on the airport’s grounds. Designs embrace the addition of a garden for public programming.
Marlon Blackwell Architects founder Marlon Blackwell mentioned he’d just like the tower to function a “beacon” of design heritage, referencing the array of modernist structure constructed within the city within the twentieth century.
“We’re so honored to have been chosen to contribute to the architectural legacy of Columbus,” mentioned Blackwell.
“Greater than a bit of infrastructure, our hope is that the brand new Columbus Municipal Airport Air Visitors Management Tower will grow to be a beacon of Columbus’s architectural and design heritage, that may mark a key gateway into town.”
Renderings of the construction image a flat, geometric metal and aluminium-clad tower divided into recurrent layers. A viewing space divides the physique of the tower and an uppermost quantity.
“The design is impressed by the aerodynamic traces of an plane, shifting and undulating as one strikes across the constructing,” mentioned the crew. “Clad in aluminium and chrome steel, the tower will act each as a sentinel and a beacon for the group.”
The mission is funded partially by the Cummins Basis Structure Program and the Metropolis of Columbus.
Building on the tower is deliberate to start in April 2025.
Lately, PAU was chosen to design a brand new technology of air site visitors management towers throughout the US and Marlon Blackwell collaborated with a bunch of designers on a bikeable construction in Bentonville.
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