For over a century, Rand Hall, a three-story 1911 yellow-brick building at the northeast corner of Cornell University’s Arts Quad in Ithaca, New York, was defined by its industrial fenestration—a grid of generously sized steel casement windows. Formerly home to undergraduate and graduate architecture studios, Rand’s operable single-glazed openings revealed to passersby the messy vitality of students hard at work. The building ceased functioning as such when the adjacent Milstein Hall, the expansive, dramatically cantilevered structure designed by OMA, became the architecture department’s new, state-of-the-art academic hub. Now Rand’s large apertures have been retrofitted with monolithic, highly reflective 12-foot-wide double-glazed windows, which lend the facade a more austere, and slightly surreal aesthetic—an outward expression of the new 26,650-square-foot Mui Ho Fine Arts Library it now houses.
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