The Columbus Museum of Art announced on May 28 that California-based landscape architecture studio Terremoto will design a new garden for the museum’s Pizzuti building in the Short North. The project is Terremoto’s first garden commission in the Midwest and its first for a major museum.

Terremoto developed the garden in partnership with The Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture, where the firm held the 2025 Glimcher Distinguished Visiting Professorship. A group of Knowlton seminar students helped install the first phase of the garden in October 2025, planting 1,900 perennials. The full design introduces more than 70 plant species native to the region, arranged in a matrix based on indigenous prairie and woodland ecosystems.

The plan also calls for new maintenance protocols intended to reduce waste and give horticultural workers more creative input in the garden’s ongoing care. The Pizzuti, located on East Gay Street, houses CMA’s collection of contemporary art and hosts rotating exhibitions.

Source: Columbus Museum of Art