The University of Baltimore has chosen five top architects to serve as jurists for a design competition for its new, $107 million law center.
The 190,000-square-foot law school will be built at Charles Street and Mount Royal Avenue, a landmark building that will be the first seen by train travelers entering the city from Pennsylvania Station.
The jurists are:
• Robert Campbell, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, architect and critic for the Boston Globe.
• Frances Halsband, founding partner of Kliment Halsband Architects of New York City, which has done work for more than 35 campuses in the country.
• Andrea Leers, professor of architecture and urban design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She also serves on national architectural boards.
• David E. Miller, a founding partner of a 55-member firm in Seattle and chair of the architecture department at the University of Washington.
• James Stewart Polshek, senior design counsel to the internationally known Polshek Partnership Architects in New York City. He also served as dean of the faculty at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.
The new law building will keep the name of the existing building, the John and Frances Angelos Law Center. The center is named for the parents of Peter Angelos, owner of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team and and a graduate of the university.
Angelos gave $5 million, the university’s largest donation, for the new center.
