Designed by ikon.5 architects, the Breazzano Family Center for Executive Education, blazes a trail for academic development
Fact File
Site Area: 0.28 acres
Building Area: 73,000 s.f.
Architect: ikon.5 architects
Photographs: Brad Feinknopf
Completion: 2017
Certification: USGBC LEED Gold Certified
Source: v2com
Located in the Collegetown section of Ithaca, New York, the Breazzano Family Center for Business Education is a 7-story, 76,000-sqft, academic building. State-of-the-art classrooms are supported by breakout rooms, faculty and student offices, social spaces, and 4-story atrium commons designed to accommodate a variety of events. The top three floors have offices for faculty and administrators, open office workstations, conference rooms and team rooms, and two broadcasting studios that transmit lectures and seminars to students in the Cornell Executive MBA Americas program.
The building façade is a combination of clear and patterned glass with a rhythmic arrangement of angled and straight projecting mullion-fins, colored compatibly with the salmon-orange bricks. The transparency of the ground floor and the active learning commons are highlighted by an undulating feature wall of wood slats and video screens. The variegated patterns of the facades serve to reduce the scale of the building, and the setback upper floors are rendered in dark metal to differentiate upper from lower and facilitate a relationship with the smaller scale of adjacent buildings.
The Breazzano Family Center has received honors and accolades from several organizations and award programs including the Chicago Athenaeum, the Architizer A+ Awards, the Society of American Registered Architects, and chapters of the American Institute of Architects.
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