600 Washington — housing in Modernism's heartland

Columbus, IN
70,000 square feet
In Progress, 2027
Type: Multifamily
Theme: Asserting Place

600 Washington extends the pedestrian-friendly urban fabric of Columbus, taking inspiration from its surrounding midcentury architectural legacy while respecting the street’s existing scale and character. The project is supported through the Cummins Foundation architecture program, which has brought prominent architects to design buildings in and around Columbus for 70 years, transforming the city into a haven of progressive modernist design. 600 Washington aims to join a growing cohort of midscale housing projects that are sensitive to urban, social, and aesthetic contexts without compromising their economic viability. It sets a precedent for humane, architecturally rigorous housing in support of a necessary density and pedestrian-centered urbanism.

Infilling a block-long void along Columbus’s main downtown strip, 600 Washington will add 52 units and ground-floor retail. Pushing and pulling away from the street, the building setbacks respond to the scale of its neighborhood. Clad in an elegantly proportioned brick façade, the building plays the parts of both chord and melody, unfolding in considered details as pedestrians pass alongside it.

600 Washington is TenBerke’s second project supported by the Cummins Foundation architecture program, following our design of the Hope Branch Library of Bartholomew County Public Library (1998).

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Set amidst exemplary projects by midcentury masters, our project is carefully composed and meticulously detailed. An upstanding and humane addition to what is a quintessential American Main Street.

Aaron Plewke, Principal

Collaborators

TenBerke
Design Architect

Louis Joyner Architect
Local Design Architect

American Structurepoint
Architect of Record; Structural Engineer; Civil Engineer; Landscape Architect

The Engineering Collaborative
MEP Engineer