Hillier College Studio To Propose Improvements to Newark Penn Station

Working closely with New Jersey Transit staff, municipal planners, and other stakeholders, a fall studio at HCAD taught by Darius Sollohub will conceptually investigate both the interior and exterior areas of Newark Penn Station. The studio will serve as a design vanguard that anticipates a $190 million Request for Proposals that will soon be issued for improvements to Newark’s Penn Station and its environs. Concepts developed by students and based on stakeholder input will diversify the ideas that the future design teams can work with to improve the station. 

The class will benefit from past Penn Station-related design work sponsored by Edison Properties in the fall of 2017 in a studio taught by Darius Sollohub, and the investigation into redesign of the Gateway Complex in a fall 2020 studio sponsored by Onyx Development and taught by Roger Smith.