Mexican Architect Looks at Historic Rutgers With a Modern Eye

“With a cylindrical glass academic building and a new undulating landscape that will extend the campus right to “the banks of the old Raritan,” the Mexican architect Enrique Norten has won the competition to reimagine the historic Rutgers campus in New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is to announce its choice today.

The competition called for improving the public spaces and designing a new academic building on College Avenue, a main thoroughfare on the original campus of the university, which began as Queen’s College in 1766. The classroom building was to be sited near the New Brunswick train station. Mr. Norten’s design moves it instead to the Raritan River, so much a part of Rutgers that the university’s alma mater, published in 1874, is “On the Banks of the Old Raritan.””

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