New buildings for Columbia and Cornell embody today’s aesthetics of higher learning, especially as applied to new frontiers in making money. JDavidsonNYC writes
At Cornell Tech, on Roosevelt Island. Photo: Michael Grimm New York now has not one but two new Ivy League campuses, and they could almost be twins, slowly moving on Manhattan from two sides. Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island and Columbia’s expansion into Manhattanville give their occupants panoramic views of water and Gilded Age bridges.
Photographs by Iwan Baan, Michael Grimm On Roosevelt Island, Snøhetta, the firm responsible for the latest additions, lets location take care of awe. Midtown Manhattan preens just across the water, and the Queensborough Bridge vaults overhead, as if extending a muscular arm over the brittle-looking buildings below. There, an 18-story hotel called the Graduate links arms with a low-rise conference center by means of a curving podium.
Kravis Hall, the one closer to the Hudson, is the more extroverted partner. A mostly glass façade folds into two interlocking sections, like a hedgerow maze seen from above. Protruding segments with glass fritted to appear pale and translucent are the faculty areas. The ultra-transparent recessed parts belong to the students: classrooms, lounges, and study areas.
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