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In May 2025, the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center expanded its footprint in New York City and inaugurated its new permanent home on the fourth floor of the seven-story Tata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island.
The Tata Innovation Center houses AAP NYC's studios, classrooms, offices, and workshops in 16,000 square feet of kinetic, light-filled space. The building's geometry, designed by Weiss/Manfredi, ensures all occupants can access natural daylight, reducing the need for artificial lighting. With an entry floor seven feet above the 100-year floodplain and a 24,000-square-foot, solar-paneled canopy, the building is designed for resilience.
The Gensler Family AAP NYC Center houses studio space for up to 120 students, a workshop, a library, conference rooms, faculty and staff offices, a flexible gallery, a crit room, and a shared kitchen and cafe that afford endless opportunities for innovation and collaboration.
The Tata Center is one of four new buildings comprising phase one of the Cornell Tech campus. Other buildings include the Bloomberg Center designed by Morphosis, the Verizon Center and Graduate Hotel by Snøhetta, and the House (faculty and graduate student apartments) designed by Handel Architects. SOM designed the master plan, and James Corner/Field Operations provided the landscape design. The campus is easily accessible by subway (F line), ferry (Astoria line), tram (Roosevelt Island 59th Street Tramway), bus, and bike.
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Students Surya Kumar and Nirmohi Kathrecha (both M.S. AUD '25) pin up their final studio project, which explores childrens' experiences of the public realm and proposes alternatives for mobility, play, and belonging in East Harlem.
The "prow" of the South Studio has panoramic views of Manhattan.
Xiofan Zhu (M.S. AUD '25) presenting her final project, a collaboration with fellow student Haoyuan Kuang (M.S. AUD '25) for instructor Dan Miller's course on environmental spatial practices in urban design.
The Gensler Family AAP NYC Center library, adjacent to the North Studio.
M.S. AUD visiting faculty Shachi Pandey of MUD Studios (standing, right) and Jieun Yang of Habitat Workshop (standing, left) introduce their summer class, Connecting Systems and Voices, which explored urban infrastructure in East Harlem, to guest critics visiting for final reviews.
Graduate students in the final days of the summer semester as they complete the three-semester, New York City-based post-professional M.S. AUD program.
Flexible classroom and event space on the fourth floor of the Tata Innovation Center, shared by the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center and Cornell Tech.
Students Ria Adhimulam and Linzi Liu (both M.S. AAD '26) pin up their project, Tent: A Public House for Performance, for their studio, which was co-taught by visiting architecture faculty Nile Greenberg and Michael Abel of ANY.
AAP NYC students, faculty, and staff mingle in the program's shared kitchen and cafe space in the Tata Innovation Center.
Students Surya Kumar and Nirmohi Kathrecha (both M.S. AUD '25) pin up their final studio project, which explores childrens' experiences of the public realm and proposes alternatives for mobility, play, and belonging in East Harlem.
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Contact
Contact The Gensler Family AAP NYC Center
11 East Loop Road, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10004
(212) 497-7595
aapnyc@cornell.edu
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