Manhattanville campus
The Manhattanville campus is an 17 acre planned development in the Manhattanville neighborhood of Manhattan, an area bound by 125th and 133rd Streets between Broadway and 12th Avenue. 6.8 million square feet of space will be built in phases and completed by 2030.
History
In the summer of 2003, President Bollinger announced the University's intention to build a extension/satellite campus, citing crushing space shortages. In terms of square footage per student, Columbia is not only dead last in the Ivy League, but the next-most space-crunched school, Harvard, still has twice the space per student that Columbia does, while Yale and Princeton have three times the space.[1]
Naturally, the plan has been somewhat controversial, seeing as it involves the prospect of very scary things like gentrification and eminent domain.
Plans
Columbia has retained world renowned architect Renzo Piano to lay the master plan for the expansion, a plan which President Bollinger has insisted must be implemented either in whole or not at all.
Current plans call for the first phase of construction to include new space for:
- Business School
- School of the Arts
- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- School of International and Public Affairs
- Jerome L. Greene Science Center
- Columbia Science, Math and Engineering Secondary School
The first four schools on the list will move in whole from their current spaces on the Morningside Heights campus, while the Greene Science Center is a new institute, and CSS is currently housed in a local public school.
Renderings
Early plans
Initial Manhattanville campus plan
View of Broadway following the campus' completion
Early rendering of a future 125th Street; the curved building was an early design for the future School of the Arts
Initial rendering of the Jerome L. Greene Science Center
Current plans
Plans for Phase One construction of the new campus
Planned buildout of the campus by 2030
View of the future Jerome L. Greene Science Center from Broadway
Future view of 130th Street running through the campus
Future view down 131st Street from Broadway
Map
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External links
- Jerome L. Greene Science Center Press Release
- Manhattanville in West Harlem (Columbia's information site)
- The Student Coalition on Expansion and alternative perspectives on Columbia's plan
