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LOPRESTI: Hinkle Fieldhouse innovative when it was built—and today

The arched steel trusses enabled the roof to cover a couple of acres without the need for beams, providing the vast and wide open spaces inside that would give the gazillion visitors to come in future years the sensation they had wandered into something that was part-gymnasium, part-national park.

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Prominent local architect Woollen dies at 88

From the mid-1950s to the 2000s, Evans Woollen III and his architectural firm designed dozens of notable local residential, public and commercial buildings, including Clowes Memorial Hall, the Minton Capehart Federal Building and Barton Tower.

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City billboard suit spooks Montage on Mass developers

A federal suit filed by a local billboard firm claiming a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision makes the city’s sign ordinance unconstitutional has pushed discussion of another project’s electronic-mesh art display to next year.

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Preservation group delays action on project with ‘digital canvas’

Members of the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission say they postponed a vote on the Mass Ave project at the request of City-County Council members who argue the building’s massive screen could run afoul of billboard rules. Commission members also questioned the building’s design and even its bold colors.

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$8M project slated for Fall Creek Place

The development would be built on land at East 22nd and Delaware streets owned by King Park Development Corp. and would feature 47 market-rate units and 9,000 square feet of retail.

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