A Tight Space for New Rutgers Medical Buildings

This New York Times article by Amy Rowland comes (on line, at least) without illustration, but is still good. Here is a Rutgers news item with images of the nursing building. 

It is challenging enough to build two state-of-the-art medical education buildings, but the challenge is even more formidable when the project site is clipped by elevated railroad tracks. This is the problem Rutgers University had to overcome to build its new College of Nursing and Institute for Health buildings here.

The two gray-and-red structures are on a rectangular 0.95-acre parcel of land, its northwest corner cut off by an Amtrak and New Jersey Transit elevated rail line. The buildings, at 110 Paterson Street, face each other in a north-south orientation with a shared courtyard.

“The site’s geography made it very difficult,” said the project’s architect, Larry Wente of Gertler & Wente, referring to the fact that the narrow side of the rectangular site fronts the street. “Because of the shape of the site, the frontage of the main entry is very narrow, so to have the buildings have street presence was very challenging. And it’s really exacerbated by the Amtrak line.”