A city sustainability manager who inspires at-risk youth to connect with nature through action sports like surfing and snowboarding. A structural engineer who protects and serves foster children as a court-appointed advocate. A K-12 school design manager who has introduced more than 6,000 fifth-grade students to the architecture profession. BD+C‘s 40 Under 40 Class of … Continued
During the recent transformation of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)’s building, with an expansion designed by the architecture firm Snøhetta, the museum embarked on a profound reexamination of its values, its experience principles, and its relationship to its audiences. The exhibition program was expanded and changed, the brand repositioned, and the visual identity … Continued
The first few components of Cornell’s new tech campus on Roosevelt Island are finally complete, and Tectonic has sent along photos documenting the progress. The development consists of 700,000 total square feet sprawling across an academic building, an incubator dubbed “The Bridge,” and a high-rise residential tower, which had topped-out as of YIMBY’s last update on … Continued
the built reality that is now cornell tech sits on the southern side of new york’s roosevelt island. a close neighbor to louis kahn’s four freedoms park, the campus embodies the future of academic architecture. in the initial phase of the project, weiss/manfredi, morphosis, and handel architects each designed a building for the growing campus — keeping in mind the institution’s vision for the … Continued
Speaking at the 2012 convocation ceremony at Cornell University’s Ithaca campus, then New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg called upon graduates to take part in what he referred to as “one of the most exciting projects ever to take shape in New York City’s history”: a new, 12-acre graduate level tech campus and entrepreneurial hub … Continued
…These buildings wear their sustainability on their sleeves, and especially in this late summer of high winds and high waters, the methods used to make this peninsular campus low-impact and highly sustainable are to be applauded. The gentle slope up from street level at the northwest corner of the site masks a six-foot berm, created … Continued
…Now the Cornell Tech campus — shared with an academic partner, Technion — Israel Institute of Technology — is up and running, and, like the World Trade Center and Hudson Yards, it’s a multi-building project that practically creates its own context… … Miraculously, a crowd of designers took the master plan by Skidmore, Owings & … Continued
Today, a host of politicians, academics, businesspeople, and architects gathered on New York City’s Roosevelt Island to inaugurate two landmark structures of Cornell Tech, one of the city’s biggest gambits to firmly establish the technology industry in the five boroughs. … …And there’s more to come: The Cornell Tech master plan from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill … Continued
Roosevelt Island, the skinny, two-mile-long strip of land between Manhattan and Queens in the East River, has been home to a prison, a lunatic asylum, a smallpox hospital and a workhouse, among other institutions. It now adds high-tech university to that list, as the Cornell Tech campus is set to be dedicated on Wednesday, marking the opening … Continued
A pop-up exhibition, presented by Mana Contemporary in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial, documents the work of SOM and the concepts and forms that stem from the firm’s integrated practice of engineering, art, and architecture. For more than 80 years, SOM — one of the world’s largest and most influential practices — has explored … Continued