The Best Architectural Review of a Wawa

Can someone get Harrison Blackman to review the Comcast Innovation and Technology Center when it’s completed? Would he think it’s giving West Philly the finger too?

I ask because Mr. Blackman recently wrote a marvelous review of the fancy new Wawa at Princeton’s renovated Dinky station. Apparently, this branch of the beloved PA store has all the markers of a sophisticated city home, complete with skylight, wood-paneled bathroom stalls and a distinctly modern design by Rick Joy.

Here’s a snippet (although I recommend you read the piece in its entirety):

Adjacent to all this is the new Wawa, a black-onyx proposition with large windows that is part Wawa, part stealth fighter. One half expects Michael Caine’s character from “Interstellar” to step outside and announce that once he has solved the problem of gravity and that he has transformed the WaWa into the premier spaceship of our generation.

My roommate said he thought the Wawa looked like a prison. I disagreed, saying that if the new Wawa looked like a prison, then it was the sexiest prison I had ever seen.

• The Dark Wawa Rises [Daily Princetonian]