Located at the eastern terminus of Tower Road, the new expansion will provide an updated anchor to Cornell’s east-west campus axis. Here, a redesigned entry plaza and re-clad Veterinary Research Tower welcomes students, faculty, and visitors and opens into a light-filled gallery. Selective demolition creates opportunities to reconnect existing laboratories and insert a series of classroom spaces centered around this wood-lined, two-and-a-half story gallery space. The gallery, a public commons, clarifies circulation and provides connections to a new shared courtyard, research spaces, and the medical center.

The design fulfills the programmatic requirements of facility expansion through strategic interior renovations and bold new additions, and also creates a coherent internal campus that is a compelling expression of the vitality and critical relevance of veterinary medicine.