Construction Projects

Over the next three decades, Columbia's long-term plan for the old Manhattanville manufacturing area will revitalize the four former industrial blocks from 125th/129th to 133rd Street between Broadway and 12th Avenue, and three small blocks along the east side of Broadway from 131st to 134th Street, into an environmentally sustainable and publicly accessible center for academic and civic life woven into the fabric of the West Harlem community.

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Knox Hall, located at Columbia affiliate Union Theological Seminary on 122nd Street and Broadway, will soon be the new home of Columbia University's Departments of Sociology and other institutions, where it will provide spaces for interdisciplinary thinking. While construction has already begun on the building's interior, the hallmark of Knox's renovations is its utilization of four 2,000-foot deep geothermal wells.

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This summer saw the temporary closing of Faculty House, which is undergoing a complete rehabilitation. Since 1923, this red brick and limestone building - designed by McKim, Mead & White in the original campus plan - has served as a gathering place for social and intellectual interaction among University faculty, administrators, alumni, graduate students and members of the community. The project includes new systems upgrades, internal modernization and a new addition to the building's fourth floor. A new entryway system will replace the current gateway entrance adjacent to Faculty House on Morningside Drive. This project is registered under the LEED Green Building Rating System, and is expected to be completed by the fall of 2009.

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McVickar Hall, located at 622 West 113^th Street between Broadway and Riverside Drive, will soon be the new home of the Office of Alumni and Development. Renovations include window, cornice and façade restorations, interior renovations including replacement of building systems, and installations of new offices and work space for use by UDAR. This project is registered under the LEED Green Building Rating System. Construction began in the spring of 2007 and is expected to be completed in early 2009.

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Columbia University's need for additional space for scientic instruction and research facilities continues to increase. To help alleviate this need for space and to better meet the scientific challenges of the 21st century, the University is constructing a new science building on the northwest corner of its Morningside campus. The project, located at the corner of Broadway and West 120th Street above the Dodge Physical Fitness Center and between Chandler Hall and Pupin Physics Laboratories, commenced in the Spring of 2007.

The Northwest Corner Building (NWC) will house faculty offices, classrooms, and research facilities for the disciplines of chemistry, biology, engineering and physics. It will also serve as a new access point to and from the Morningside campus. This project is registered under the LEED Green Building Rating System. It is anticipated that The Northwest Corner Building will be competed in the Fall of 2010.

The Northwest Corner Building is being designed by José Rafael Moneo.  New York-based Davis Brody Bond is the building's architect of record.  Construction of the new building is being managed by Turner Construction.

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