Cornell University
Weill Cornell Medical College York Ambulatory Care Building

Rank #16 (Tied)
Cost: $125 million

Bovis Lend Lease LMB has started work on the new 338,000-sq.-ft. ambulatory care facility for Cornell University's Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College.

The new building at York Avenue and 70th Street in Manhattan will constitute the first step in what is envisioned as a state-of-the-art expansion of the medical school's campus.

In addition to housing advanced clinical facilities for departments such as dermatology, hypertension, ENT, IVF and cardiology, the 12-story structure will provide a central medical conference center and physician training in its Clinical Skills and Teaching Center.

The ground-floor lobby will be served by a secure and convenient vehicle drop-off to facilitate patient arrival and departure. From the lobby, escalators will take visitors up to the Patient Welcome and Resource Center.

Conceived as a gem-like glass icon, the white ceramic fritted glass curtain wall is cut into long vertical facets. The gently sloped vertical surfaces reflect the gothic motif of the original New York Hospital campus across York Avenue, while its luminous wall suggests a new direction for health care: precise, elegant and unexpectedly refined.

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