PAUL MILSTEIN HALL CORNELL UNIVERSITY, USA, ITHACA, NEW YORK, 2006

Extension to the College of Architecture, Art and Planning

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Occupying four distinct buildings at the northern periphery of Cornell's Arts Quad, the College for Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) is currently a fragmented area, dislocated from the energy of university life. The new Milstein Hall – a 14,000m2 complex containing much-needed studio, exhibition and crit space, an auditorium and a new Fine Arts Library – is conceived not as a symbolic, isolated addition to the campus but as a connecting structure: a large elevated horizontal plate that links the second levels of Sibley and Rand Halls and cantilevers over University Avenue, reaching towards the Foundry building. Where a car park once stood between Sibley and Rand, a contiguous, multi-layer system of buildings and plazas will unite the disparate elements of the AAP, creating a vibrant public space adjacent to the campus’s most beautiful feature, just to the north – the Fall Creek Gorge.
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FACT SHEET

Client:
Cornell University

Status:
Under construction. Completion expected August 2011

Budget:
$34.5 Million

Location:
Ithaca, New York USA

Site:
Northern edge of campus, between Rand Hall and Sibley Hall

Program:
Studios, crit Spaces, library, auditorium, exhibition, computer labs

COLLABORATORS

Executive Architect:
KHA Architects, LLC

Structural Engineer:
Robert Silman Associates

MEP Engineer:
Plus Group Consulting Engineering
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CREDITS

Partners:
Rem Koolhaas, Shohei Shigematsu

Associate in charge:
Ziad Shehab

Team:

Jason Long, Michael Smith, Troy Schaum, Charles Berman, Amparo Casani, Noah Shepherd, Alasdair Graham, Torsten Schroeder, Joshua Beck, Erica Goetz, Margaret Arbanas, Matthew Seidel, Tsuyoshi Nakamoto, Ritchie Yao, Konrad Krupinski, Kengo Skorick, Martin Schliefer, Marcin Ganczarski, Tanner Merkeley, Konstantin August, Klaas Kresse, Mathieu De Paepe, Suzanna Waldron, Daphna Glaubert, Beatriz Minguez de Molina, Jesse Seegers, James Davies, Esa Ruskeepaa, Daniel Gerber, Paul Georgeadis, Julianna Gola

CLIENT COMMENTS

"This will be a building of international significance ... OMA is one of the leading firms in the world today with a great deal of experience in high-caliber projects. They are particularly innovative in the use of program and its relation to the design of space."

Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell University

PRESS

Chronicle Online, 24 May 2009
Architectural Record, 18 June 2009
Architect's Newspaper, 27 July 2009
New York Times, 19 September 2006