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Weiss/Manfredi Architects, via Co.Exist From FastCompany's Co.Exist yesterday, Introducing The Bridge, The Innovation Hub Of New York City's $2 Billion Tech Campus , subtitled "Cornell Tech is building a new type of campus where companies and academia will work together more closely than ever": At New York City’s newest university , the Ivory Tower is being declared dead before it even gets built.  That’s the philosophy embodied in the name the Bridge , one of three buildings slated to open in 2017 during the first phase of construction of Cornell Tech’s new $2 billion, 12-acre campus on Roosevelt Island. The graduate school— a pillar of New York City’s efforts to grow its tech economy—is not shy about its desire to knock down traditional barriers between academia and industry collaboration. The Bridge, formerly referred to as the "corporate co-location" building, is where the action will happen. "It's taking this notion of the commercia...

It's a very good week for Forest City Ratner. Not only does new CEO MaryAnne Gilmartin get ranked the 16th most powerful woman in New York City by Crain's New York Business (up from 35 in 2011), Forest City was chosen by Cornell University as the master developer for the first two buildings on Cornell University's Roosevelt Island engineering campus. The campus, known as Cornell Tech , may be the most important legacy of the Bloomberg administration, assuming it pays off as projected. Forest City would build and own the second building, which would house private-sector tenants, while it would build but not own the first building, to be used for academic purposes, according to  Crain's New York Business. The academic building would be 150,000 square feet and the office tech building would be 200,000 square feet. Unanswered in the coverage and press release was how Forest City was chosen (was there any nudge from the mayor's office? any bidding?) and how the bu...