While Balch is under renovation, the new Toni Morrison Hall served as the all-women’s dorm for 2021-22, and Barbara McClintock Hall is serving as the women’s dorm this year. The gut renovation of Balch Hall, Cornell’s all-women freshman dorm, continues on the university’s North Campus. The building is heading for a completion date in the summer of 2024. Like with the Synchrotron project, Lake Flato Architects is in charge of the building’s design work, with additional work provided by Rochester’s SWBR Architects. “Abundant and carefully controlled” natural lighting and views work with the transparency of interior walls to create a comfortable environment for occupants. It will also host open, flexible laboratory benching with shared core equipment spaces, alcoves, fume hoods and cell culture spaces arranged to support several principal investigators in each wing. The building utilizes the latest trends in academic construction, with ample common spaces to foster interaction among typically-cloistered researchers. Welliver’s construction team planted the American flag at the top construction firms often have little flourishes they use when topping out new builds, such as flags or pine trees.Īccording to university press releases, the new 90,000 square-foot building ( I’ve also seen quotes of 105,000 square-feet, though that might be gross square footage) is “intended to foster innovative and collaborative research in priority areas of sustainability, public health, cancer biology, immunology and computational biology.” Space for faculty and staff of the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and a new Master of Public Health program are included in the building’s program components. Structural steel is advancing, primarily on the west side of the building at this time, and the concrete masonry block stairwell towers and elevator cores have been assembled. The foundation is fully formed, with rebar grid in place for concrete pours on the ground floor. An artist’s rendering of Atkinson Hall, to be built on the north side of Tower Road overlooking the Cornell Botanic Gardens Atkinson Hall (Tower Road)Ĭornell’s $54 million Atkinson Hall interdisciplinary building is heading skyward just east of the Ag Quad on Tower Road. Completion of the project is expected by October 2023. SWBR is working with Texas-based Lake Flato Architects on the design, and Streeter Associates is the project’s general contractor. The concrete exterior will be faced in masonry materials intended to blend in with the gorge, to “present a simple and technically appropriate face” as SWBR Architects puts it. Structural steel bracing can be seen on the inside, and corrugated steel decking has been laid for the roof base (insulation and a waterproof membrane are likely to follow). All those holes in the concrete are for specialized equipment and piping, alongside the more typical doorways and garage door bay. The site would also include the typical complement of access paths for pedestrians and vehicles, lighting, bioretention/stormwater facilities, bicycle racks and landscaping with native plantings.Īs cutting-edge scientific research often is, the project doesn’t come cheap-construction and outfitting the expanded CHESS facility will clock in with a price tag of about $32.6 million. The concrete shell of the experimental hall is fully formed, though it looks like the westward extension has yet to be built out. Inside will be high-bay research space housing three new experimental X-ray beamlines with associated research hutches, and an overhead bridge crane. The expansion project will add a two-story, 17,420 square-foot building, called the “New Experimental Hall,” next to the west wall of the existing laboratory, but still connecting to the existing synchrotron. You can read more about the science behind the plans in the Voice’s July 2021 writeup here. Meanwhile, a new above-ground facility would house High-Magnetic Field (HMF) technology and be the first of its kind in an X-ray facility. The state-of-the-art synchrotron and operating facility, collectively called the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), is constructing new lines for x-ray beams. Wilson Lab / CHESS Synchrotron Expansion (Campus Road)Ĭonstruction continues on the expansion of Cornell’s high-energy particle research facility. Cornell Booth Baseball Field (Ellis Hollow and Game Farm Roads).Thurston Hall Addition (Engineering Quad).Wilson Lab (CHESS Synchrotron Expansion).
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