The Republic: Columbus's Glass Press

Columbus, Indiana is famous for its architecture, and among its landmarks stands a building that celebrated journalism itself. The Republic Newspaper Office was designed by Myron Goldsmith of the firm Skidmore Owings and Merrill and built between nineteen sixty-nine and nineteen seventy-one. At the height of Miesian Modernism, Goldsmith wrapped the entire building in a thin curtain wall of steel and glass so that passersby could see straight through to the reporters working and the presses running: the production of news made visible as a kind of civic theater.

In twenty twelve, it was named a National Historic Landmark, at the time the youngest architectural National Historic Landmark ever designated. Indiana University now uses it as the home of its architecture program.