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2009 |
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unbuilt |
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newark, nj |
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institutional |
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Consistent with the site’s history, the Newark Visitors Center will mediate between urbanity and landscape, infrastructure and community. The Center will welcome visitors and local residents, celebrating and providing information about the area’s heritage. Its purpose is to strengthen public-private relationship by encouraging community use of its gardens, auditorium, café, conference center, and archive library.
The historical Morris Canal is architecturally referenced along the Raymond Blvd. border, and mediates urban density with landscape. The other border, Jersey Street, will be activated to establish a public and private transit node and visitor disembarking point at a lower plaza level. Similarly, the southern gardens serve as a contemporary piazza of subtle ramps and shaded allees engaging the local Ironbound community and terminating in a secondary entrance to the conference space and Newark archive library.
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