Snøhetta has unveiled the Graduate Roosevelt Island Hotel and Verizon Executive Education Center, a pair of independently operated but physically connected buildings designed to create a welcoming front door for New York City’s Cornell Tech Campus. A planted entry plaza connects the two buildings, linking flexible spaces tailored to academic conferences, classes, and executive programs with lodging and dining options for guests and visitors to the island. Together, the buildings create a new home for the entrepreneurial spirit of New York City.

▼项目远观，distant view of the project ©Michael Grimm

Snøhetta provided overall design for the 36,500-square-foot business conference center as well as façade design for the 196-room hotel tower. Upon arriving on campus, visitors first encounter the 18-story hotel tower, its softly curved surfaces wrapped in shimmering double-height aluminum façade panels. A pair of V-shaped columns mark the threshold to a ground-level bar opening onto the shared courtyard while a continuous soffit runs from this entry along the perimeter of the ground floor and ultimately leads to the Verizon Executive Education Center.

▼柔缓的曲面被双层高铝制立面板包裹 ©Michael Grimm the softly curved surfaces are wrapped in double-height aluminum façade panels