New Campus Home for NYU-SCPS Creates State-of-the-Art Learning Environment

newsletter_Page_01_Image_0001 In June, when students, faculty members, and administrators occupy the newly renovated NYU-SCPS Building at 7 East 12th Street, they will experience a transformational environment that truly integrates form and function.

The 12-story building will house the Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management; the Paul McGhee Division for undergraduate studies for adults; the Liberal Studies and Allied Arts programs; the American Language Institute; and the NYU-SCPS schoolwide administrative offices and support services. It will feature state-of-the-art facilities, including the ninth floor student resource center, the fifth-floor student lounge and event space, and the ground-floor lobby and gathering lounge.

Classrooms throughout the building will be equipped with the latest audiovisual and communications technologies.

Although predominantly focused on designing a functional space that addresses the needs of current students and anticipates the demands of delivering the highest quality of education for years to come, Mitchell|Giurgola Architects, LLP, the project architects, also incorporated many unique design features, including a dramatic glass façade and a grand elliptical staircase that provides distinctive access from the concourse level through the lobby to the second floor.

Excitement is mounting as the project completion date draws nearer. “This is a very exhilarating phase for all of us involved in the 7 East 12th Street renovation,” said Carol Loewenson, AIA, a partner at Mitchell|Giurgola. “Our collective vision for the new NYU-SCPS building is becoming a tangible reality.”

When the renovation is completed, the former Fairchild Building will become the School’s first permanent on-campus home and its anchor, in addition to its locations at the NYU Midtown Center (11 West 42nd Street) and the Downtown Center at the Woolworth Building (15 Barclay Street) in Lower Manhattan.

The official ribbon-cutting ceremony in the fall will be a milestone event for the School, marking, in Dean Robert Lapiner’s words, the start of “a new era of possibility and achievement for NYU-SCPS.”