Cornell Announces Six Finalists for Roosevelt Island Design

The SOM concept design for Roosevelt IslandFollowing up the December announcement that it would build a tech campus on Roosevelt Island, Cornell University has selected six firms from a field of 43 to design the campus. As reported by The Architect’s Newspaper, Skidmore Owings and Merrill (the firm that made the original renderings picture above) are still in the running and will remain with the project throughout the planning stage. The five additional finalists include OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Morphosis Architects, Steven Holl Architects, and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. A contract for the winning firm is expected in April.