Supporting our core spaces.
The heart of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Sibley Dome serves as the iconic centerpiece of AAP on the Cornell Arts Quad. To continue its enduring legacy, the renovation of Sibley Dome is among the college's important capital projects during the To Do The Greatest Good campaign. Its renovation and redesign will create new programmatic spaces to meet academic needs and priorities, while renewing the building's vital status at Cornell.
The renovation will create much-needed learning spaces, including an auditorium, studio, and collaborative commons for students, as well as provide a home for the college's newest initiatives, such as the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities and the multicollege Department of Design Tech. Creating a dynamic hub for the college under the dome, which has always been iconic for AAP students and alumni, will be transformative, enabling cross-disciplinary collaborative spaces for the entire AAP community and meeting critical needs for the college and university.
A Vital Hub for AAP and Cornell
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Renovations to Revitalize Sibley Dome as Vital Hub for AAP
Featuring a 100-seat "hanging" auditorium, a collaborative commons area, and flexible studios and spaces for the Department of Design Tech and the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities, the adaptive reuse project celebrates the 1902 building's historic elements while giving it new life within the college.
The History of Sibley Hall
An Architectural Evolution
Sibley Hall was originally built in the late 1800s to provide a home for the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering. Named for Hiram Sibley of Rochester, New York, one of the university's original trustees, the building began as a single structure (now West Sibley Hall), and over the next 30 years expanded to include the east wing, and eventually the central building and dome structure that joined the two separate wings together.
Ways You Can Make An Impact
Sibley Dome Gifts
Help us build on 150 years of excellence and a shared responsibility to bring bold inquiry, leading research, and innovative design to bear on the world's most significant challenges as we create a more sustainable, just, and prosperous future. Join us in honoring our history and extending our legacy of creativity and impact by supporting our initiative to create renewed spaces in Sibley Dome.
Consider supporting the Sibley Dome renovation project by making a gift of any size toward the initiative or leave a lasting impact at the heart of AAP with a naming gift. Please contact Keith Hejna or Jessica del Mundo to learn more.
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