Bradfield Hall is an academic building located on the central campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It is located on Tower Road at the eastern edge of the Agricultural Quadrangle.
| Cornell University Bradfield Hall | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Academic building |
| Architectural style | Brutalist |
| Location | Ithaca, New York, USA |
| Address | 306 Tower Rd |
| Opened | 1969 |
| Cost | $6.2 Million |
| Height | 166 feet |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 11 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Ulrich Franzen |
| Website | |
| http://ccams.eas.cornell.edu/index.php?page=exp_bradfield | |
Description
editDesigned in the brutalist style by Ulrich Franzen, the building was completed in 1969. Bradfield currently houses Cornell's departments of Crop and Soil Science, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Plant Breeding and Genetics. As most of the laboratories in the building are climate controlled, none of the rooms in the first ten stories in Bradfield have windows (the hallways have windows at each end).
The eleventh floor contains the Northeast Regional Climate Center, one of the six National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration regional climate centers. Also located in the building are a computer lab and a library. Bradfield Hall was named after Professor Richard Bradfield, a noted crop and soil scientist and Guggenheim Fellowship winner.[1]
Among its accolades, Bradfield Hall has been named one of the "World's 10 most spectacular university buildings" by the building data site Emporis.[2]
Bradfield is reported to be one of the most "energy-intensive" buildings on campus.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Bradfield Hall". Emporis. Archived from the original on December 16, 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "10 of the world's most spectacular university buildings to impress travelers". CNN.
- ^ "Labs reduce energy in annual cold storage competition". Campus Sustainability Office. Cornell University. 13 September 2021. Retrieved 25 December 2021.