Preston Centre Columbus, Ohio

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People Involved

Tim Schmalenberger
Karen McCoy
Matthew Kellogg
Tom Stephens
Lavonne Grosjean
Michael Davis
Rachael Harkleroad
Benjamin Kohls

Sunken garden offers space for residents and office workers of a revitalized urban mixed-use building

The project includes the revitalization of a 1976, 24-story office tower located a 155 East Broad Street, in downtown Columbus originally designed by Skidmore Owings and Merrill. The revitalization entails converting floors 9-23 to residential use while floors 3-8 will remain as office use. The Lower Level, Ground, and Second floors will be upgraded to provide discrete residential and office entrances, while also expanding the at-grade retail connection and creating a more active public zone with a friendlier streetscape.

The site design replaces the existing 2-story blackglass box frontispiece with a new sunken garden and a landscaped public and retail plaza. New, more welcoming residential, retail, and office main entries will be created along Broad Street with materials and patterning designed to seamlessly blend the exterior and interior expression and draw in visitors, employees, and residents. Secondary retail entrances of similar character will be added to the east and west elevations.