Baltimore, MD – Amid fireworks and gala celebration, The Johns Hopkins University dedicated the Decker Quadrangle on the school’s Homewood campus today.
The $77 million project, under construction since 2005, includes Mason Hall, with a visitors’ center and admissions office, the 75,000 s.f. interdisciplinary Computational Science and Engineering Building and the 604-space South Garage, an underground structure covered by the grassy lawn of the Quad. The design of the complex reestablishes Homewood’s distinctive architectural style.
The Decker Quadrangle honors the late Alonzo Decker Jr., longtime chairman and CEO of Black & Decker Corp. and former Hopkins trustee, and his wife Virginia. Mason Hall is named in honor of Raymond A. “Chip” Mason, chairman, president and CEO of Legg Mason Inc., and a long-serving Hopkins trustee, and his wife Rand.
In the October 24 Baltimore Sun, architecture critic Edward Gunts applauded the design of the Decker Quad project, which balances the architectural “brand” of the Homewood campus with the sophisticated technology of the interdisciplinary research faciliity.
