Cornell Tech: Creative CollisionsThe first three buildings on Cornell Tech’s 12-acre campus on Roosevelt Island won’t open until next year, but their structure is already becoming visible. Traditional classrooms, too, are few — the Cornell Tech curriculum privileges projects over lectures. One of the things the Cornell Tech team most appreciated about Pixar was its “surprise” spaces. (Until it moves onto its own campus, Cornell Tech is headquartered in the Google building in Chelsea — every designer working for a university, it seems, has taken a swing through Mountain View.) The Morphosis building will have a series of unexpected rooms, focused on art, including a round one built to hold abstract murals by Ilya Bolotowsky salvaged from the 1940s hospital demolished to build the campus.

Source: New York Times August 04, 2016 09:01 UTC