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Have you seen Cornell’s bright new Gates Hall?

United Kingdom Architecture News - Dec 01, 2014 - 14:41   2839 views

Take a look at this - another beautiful academic building from Morphosis, the firm behind 41 Cooper Square

Have you seen Cornell’s bright new Gates Hall?

Bill & Melinda Gates Hall by Morphosis

A century after the completion of Cornell University’s iconic Barton Hall, its Ithica campus welcomes another significant piece of architecture. The church-like Barton Hall, with its interior of nearly two acres and exterior of pallid brick, was the work of architect and academic Lewis F Pilcher. Its new neighbour is a shimmering mass of metal by Thom Mayne’s Morphosis Architects.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Hall is the new home of Computing and Information Science at the university in central New York State. Officially opened last month, it sits in a corner of the campus which was under used, and is intended to act as a new campus gateway and frontage....Continue Reading

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