Before it was the Wexner Center, it was the OSU Armory ➡️ Built in 1898, the OSU Armory and Gymnasium hosted everything from basketball to military drills. It was badly damaged in a fire in 1958, and destroyed the next year. In 1983, famed New York architect Peter Eisenman teamed up with Columbus’ Richard Trott to design the Wexner Center for the Arts. They faced a unique challenge: because of a surveying discrepancy, the city grid and the campus grid do not line up – they’re misaligned by about 12 degrees. The architects embraced this, building the famous white scaffolding on the city grid, with the rest of the building aligned to campus. The result is a space that exists between two systems, creating a symbolic transition between students and Columbus residents, as well as an intersection of arts and community. The Wexner Center opened in 1989 to national headlines and an audience of A-list architects. In 2022, general admission became free for everyone, a policy that c...