Panel to Judge Rutgers Redesign

Panel to Judge Rutgers Redesign
A panel has been selected to judge the international competition to redesign the College Avenue campus, a project that is part of a $300 million overhaul of the university's main campus.

The panel includes experts in architecture, urban planning, landscape design and historic preservation as well as representatives of the Rutgers faculty, alumni and student body.

The panel will evaluate and rank design concepts submitted by five teams of architecture and landscape firms and make its recommendations to President Richard L. McCormick.

The winning team will have the opportunity to create the landscape for the greening of the College Avenue campus and to design a signature academic building.

The panel will be chaired by Peter Primavera, a 1980 Rutgers University graduate and president of CRCG, a historic preservation firm.

The panel includes New Brunswick Mayor James Cahill and James Hughes, the dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.

The group also includes Harrison S. Fraker Jr., dean of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley; Hugh Hardy, co-founder of H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture; Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies at Bard College; and Darius Sollohub, associate director