Location: Camden, NJ, USA.

Architect: Perkins Eastman.

The City of Camden has made a commitment to revitalization and community-building, and the striking new Rutgers University-Camden: Nursing and Science Building is a lynchpin for these efforts. It connects the University to the community, and the community to itself, and captures the inherent value of access to transportation, a waterfront, and historic building stock. It is the first step in an effort to help revitalize Camden, by building a corridor connecting Camden’s university district with the Cooper University Hospital and Cooper Medical School of Rowan. Perkins Eastman’s daring yet sensitive design for the Nursing and Science Building bridges academic programs with clinical experience expands Rutgers’ ability to prepare for a new generation of science and nursing leaders and unifies and activates the burgeoning eds and meds corridor to help Camden return to prominence. It also activates the pedestrian realm and communicates its purpose.