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Malott Hall Addition, Cornell University Campus 02, Tower Road Elevation

Title:
Malott Hall Addition, Cornell University Campus 02, Tower Road Elevation
Project Title:
Malott Hall Addition, Cornell University Campus 02
Collection:
John Clair Miller
Creator:
John Clair Miller
Alex Krieger
Project Owner:
Cornell University
Date:
1975
Location:
Cornell University
Location:
Ithaca, Tompkins, New York, United States (inhabited place)
Country:
United States
Identifier:
JCM_MAL_012
Culture:
American
Style/Period:
Contemporary
Work Type:
elevations (orthographic projections)
plans (orthographic projections)
Project
Materials/Techniques:
ink
screentone
paper
Subject:
additions (general components)
departments (organizational units)
universities (buildings)
lecture halls
auditoriums
classrooms
Image View Type:
General
Description:
Design an addition to the existing Malott Hall on the Cornell Campus. It houses the growing activities of the Graduate School of Business and Public Administration. The new structure will include offices, classrooms, library and lecture rooms. The existing landscape garden and its sculpture between the existing Malott Hall and Tower Road were to be maintained.
The addition to Malott Hall was designed to be a coherent form within itself and, at the same time, compatible with the existing building in exterior character, as well as internal spatial organization. Situating the new structure perpendicular to the existing building, and careful detailing of the juncture between them, maintains the image of the existing building as a distinct and separate entity. The location of the new addition reinforces the corner of Tower Road and Garden Avenue. The external rising circulation from Tower Road to the entrance of the existing building provides a view of the landscape garden and sculpture. The two lecture rooms, with 120 seats in each, were designed in a forum arrangement with tiered seating to facilitate class discussions.
Rights:
The images in the John Clair Miller Collection (here presented as “Projects”, “Competitions” and “Collages”) and the John Clair Miller Image Collection of Twentieth-Century Architecture in Iceland are protected by copyright, and the copyright holder is their creator/photographer, John Clair Miller. Images in the John Clair Miller Collection were created between 1962-2007, and were digitized by Cornell University Library. Images in the John Clair Miller Image Collection of Twentieth-Century Architecture in Iceland date from 2001-2007, and were digitized from 35mm slides by Cornell University Library in 2016. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.

About the collection

The John Clair Miller Collection is comprised of photographs, drawings, plans and elevations of executed projects and competitions that the architect undertook between 1962 and 2007. Projects include the Church of the Holy Spirit (1965), the Sagan Residence (1972), and the Malott Hall Addition (1975). Also included in this collection are his collage works composed of international ephemera.