Columbia University Medical Center?s new, state-of-the-art medical and graduate education building, the Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center, will open to faculty and students on August 15, 2016 for the start of the fall term. Designed by the New York-based interdisciplinary design studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro, in collaboration with Gensler as executive architect, the Vagelos Education Center is a 100,000-square-foot, 14-story glass tower that incorporates technologically advanced classrooms, collaboration spaces, and a modern simulation center to reflect how medicine is taught, learned, and practiced in the 21st century. The design seeks to reshape the look and feel of the Medical Center campus, and also create spaces that facilitate the development of skills essential for modern medical practice. 
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Architects: Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Location: 104 Haven Ave, New York, NY 10032, United States

Executive Architect: Gensler

Area: 110000.0 ft2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Iwan Baan, Nic Lehoux

Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Elizabeth Diller (Partner-in-Charge); Ricardo Scofidio AIA, Charles Renfro AIA, Benjamin Gilmartin AIA (Principal Designers); Anthony Saby (Project Director) Chris Hillyard, AIA (Project Architect); Chris Andreacola AIA, David Chacon AIA, Christopher Kupski AIA LEED AP,...