Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center at Columbia University Medical Center

Serving as the executive architect, Gensler New York collaborated with Diller and Scofidio Renfro to create a state of the art facility for Columbia University's medical and graduate students consisting of classrooms, a large lecture hall, critical technical spaces, anatomy labs and simulation centers.

The facade plays a dual role where it screens the multi-story open plans which glows at night to serve as a beacon for the campus. Rather than a conventional horizontal plan, they created a vertically stacked plan which is interconnected inside.