Bradfield Hall

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Field	Value
name	Cornell University
Bradfield Hall
image	Bradfield Hall 02.jpg
building_type	Academic building
architectural_style	Brutalist
cost	$6.2 Million
location	Ithaca, New York, USA
address	306 Tower Rd
opened_date	1969
height	166 feet
floor_count	11
architect	Ulrich Franzen
website	https://ccams.eas.cornell.edu/index.php?page=exp_bradfield
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Bradfield Hall is an academic structure situated on central campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It is located on the eastern boundary of the Agricultural Quadrangle on Tower Road.

Description

Designed 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.

Bradfield Hall's accolades include being listed by the building data site Emporis, as one of the "World's 10 most spectacular university buildings"

According to reports, Bradfield is among the campus's "most-intensive" buildings.

References

References

1. "Bradfield Hall".
2. "10 of the world's most spectacular university buildings to impress travelers".
3. (13 September 2021). "Labs reduce energy in annual cold storage competition". Cornell University.

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