Image Courtesy of Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc.
In 1996 New Jersey Transit issued a call for proposals for public art for the planned Bergen-Hudson Light Rail Line. The Rail Quilt, my proposal for a "Windscreen Enhancement" was selected for the Newport Mall station. A windscreen is a roofed shelter located on a station platform with glass block walls on three sides. The enhancement is a design that is etched onto the glass block walls. For this project I designed a rail motif that frames drawings done by students from Visual Arts High School in Jersey City.
Two windscreens are scheduled to be installed in the Newport Mall Station located in Jersey City, NJ in the Fall of 1999. Links to images of the windscreens, student drawings and architectual drawings of the windscreen are below.
Special thanks to the students of the Visual Arts High School Program and Jersey City Art Educators John Bradford, Amy Fairweather, Nancy Healy, Carolyn Lorenzo and Claire Wejnert.
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Front Elevation |
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Windscreen Plan |
Detail at Column |
Drawings Courtesy of Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc.
Two Gateway Center, Newark, New Jersey 07102
