The first academic building at Cornell Tech makes a gleaming, bold statement.

Two buildings open on a new campus in upper Manhattan, with a promise to enhance the community.

The old football field may be long gone, but Mrs. Clark Thompson’s temperance-era rite was oddly prophetic. More than a century later, on the footprint of its grandstands, Ohio Field has been reincarnated as a new chilled-water facility.

Stanford University’s Central Energy Facility has a lot of serious technology, but much of it is presented in the lively hues more typical of a children’s museum.