Bradfield Hall

Cornell University Bradfield Hall
General information
Type	Academic building
Architectural style	Brutalist
Location	Ithaca, New York, USA
Address	306 Tower Rd
Opened	1969
Cost	$6.2 Million
Height	166 feet
Technical details
Floor count	11
Design and construction
Architect	Ulrich Franzen
Website
http://ccams.eas.cornell.edu/index.php?page=exp_bradfield

Bradfield Hall is an academic building located on the central campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It is located on Tower Road at the eastern edge of the Agricultural Quadrangle.

Description[]

At 166 feet and 11 stories tall, Bradfield Hall is the tallest building on the Cornell campus and in Tompkins County. 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.^[1]

Among its accolades, Bradfield Hall has been named one of the "World's 10 most spectacular university buildings" by the building data site Emporis.^[2]

Bradfield is reported to be one of the most "energy-intensive" buildings on campus.^[3]

References[]

External links[]

• Cornell Meteorology page on Bradfield Hall

Coordinates: 42°26′51.35″N 76°28′48.40″W / 42.4475972°N 76.4801111°W / 42.4475972; -76.4801111