What Cornell's Roosevelt Island Campus Might Look Like
Today, Cornell unveiled the six architecture firms that will submit their ideas for the school's much anticipated Roosevelt Island campus in New York City.
The nominees are Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Steven Holl, Morphosis, and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Each firm has experience designing for academic institutions and all but OMA have done previous work in New York City.
To get a better idea of what kind of work each firm does, we've put together a slideshow of education-related works by selected architects:
Keywords: New York, Higher education
Mark Byrnes is an associate editor at The Atlantic Cities. All posts »
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