Fox & Fowle wins design award

Real Estate Weekly, Jan 1, 2003

Fox & Fowle Architects has received a prestigious award for its design of a striking new addition to the Walter Rand Transportation Center, in Camden, NJ. The 5,000-SF steel and glass-design won a 2002 Bronze Star from the New Jersey chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA/NJ). Fox & Fowle Architects has also designed the Hoboken Terminal Station and the Tunnel Station in the City of Union for the Hudson-Bergen LightRail; both projects are under construction. The firm is also part of the team designing Manhattan's new Second Avenue Subway.

The addition to the Rand Transportation Center is visualized with a green folding steel roof, which bends to form canopies, skylights, walls, information panels, benches and light-wells. All are set off in sharp contrast to the transparent glass exterior curtain walls, which would allow clear lines of sights through the station, let daylight flood the interior and make it easy for the authorities to monitor security in the station.

The existing center, located in Camden at Mickle Boulevard and Broadway, will continue to serve the New Jersey Transit Rail System, the New Jersey Transit Bus System, and the new Southern New Jersey Light Rail Transit System. The addition was designed adjacent to the existing Walter Rand Station of PATCO to serve as an intermodal facility between PATCO, local buses, and the new SNJLR (Southern New Jersey Light Rail Transit System.)

The 2002 Bronze Star award was presented at the AIA/NJ's annual Design Awards Day Competition on Oct. 17, at the New Jersey Institute of Technology's School of Architecture in Newark, New Jersey. Fox & Fowle's innovative design also earned an award from the Society of Registered Architects earlier this year.