New York City
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates / Castro-Blanco Piscioneri

Photography © Michael Moran

A new campus concept succeeds in its urban mission

Program: Over the 156 years of its life, Baruch has thrived in New York City as an urban, multicultural college serving motivated students in a variety of business and liberal arts programs. Scattered and disconnected, the campus lacked cohesion and common gathering areas and needed to provide appropriate accommodation for a bustling student body of 15,000.

Solution: The academic building occupies three quarters of a full city block and forms the center of a new urban campus. It contains a great central atrium connecting the three parts of the school—the business school, liberal arts college, and shared social amenities—and serving as a focal point and gathering place for interaction. Through a series of four-story atria, the building's verticality was optimized to create campus quadrangles for each program stacked diagonally throughout the large floor plate. Students, faculty, and New Yorkers have all proclaimed its enormous success.

For more images please see the November 2003 issue or Architectural Record.

The Winners: Orange Innovations | Hotel Habita | Sekii Ladies Clinic | Start-Up Offices | Inn at Price Tower | Darwin Centre | Apple SoHo | Stealth/Ogilvy | Gannett/USA Today Corporate Headquarters | ImageNet

The Finalists: Automated Trading Desk Technology Campus | Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery | University of Washington | Herman Miller MarketPlace | Beacon Communications Office | New Academic Complex, Baruch College, CUNY | Mott Children's Center

Unbuilt Projects: Great Harbor Design Center

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