Dedication ceremony of the Manhattanville Campus, October 2016. Photo © Eileen Barroso
Photo © Eileen Barroso
Monday, Columbia University dedicated a satellite campus on 17 acres in New York’s West Harlem neighborhood. Known as the Manhattanville Campus, the $6.3 billion development, which sits about a mile north of the Ivy League school’s main gates, will eventually comprise 6.8 million square feet of academic space…
The new campus’s first two buildings—the Lenfest Center for the Arts and the Jerome L. Greene Science Center, a neuroscience lab—are nearly complete and expected to be fully operational in the spring. Both were designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, which also created the campus master plan in collaboration with Skidmore Owings & Merrill…