In designing The Bridge for the new Cornell Tech campus in New York, Weiss/Manfredi faced several architectural challenges. As part of the first phase of creating this engineering and computer-science complex for Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the project was one of three new buildings on Roosevelt Island in the East River. Accordingly, it needed to strongly express its identity. At the same time, it had to acknowledge its neighbors: Morphosis’s prominently placed four-story Bloomberg Center across the way and Handel Architect’s The House, a 26-story academic residence just to the north.
But perhaps the most challenging was the relatively untried program—a co-location space. Here in a 235,000-square-foot building, graduate students would be encouraged to mingle with entrepreneurs to generate start-ups. One-third of the space would be filled with students, while two-thirds would accommodate workplaces for tech businesses. The developer, Forest City Ratner Companies (FCR), actually owns the facility, leasing space both to the school and to tech-related companies.
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