The Cornell Tech campus occupies Roosevelt Island in Manhattan. Cornell University is the parent institution, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation awarded the project. Morphosis designed the Bloomberg Center, Weiss/Manfredi the Tata Innovation Center and Handel Architects the residential tower called The House. Snøhetta designed the Graduate Hotel, with Stonehill Taylor as architect of record. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill drew the master plan, and James Corner designed the landscape.
Construction of The House began in 2015 and the first phase opened on September 13, 2017. The hotel was built from March 2018 to June 2021. The first phase covers 5 acres and the full campus 12 acres. The House is 26 floors and 270 feet tall.
The Bloomberg Center has a rooftop solar array and geothermal wells. The campus has no parking lots and is reached by the Roosevelt Island Tramway, the F and M subway and the Q102 bus.
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