Bradfield Hall

Bradfield Hall is a notable academic building at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, designed in the brutalist style by architect Ulrich Franzen and completed in 1969. It serves as the home for several departments, including Crop and Soil Science and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, featuring climate-controlled laboratories without windows on the first ten floors. The eleventh floor houses the Northeast Regional Climate Center, a key facility for climate research. Named after esteemed professor Richard Bradfield, the hall is recognized as one of the 'World's 10 most spectacular university buildings' and is known for its intensive use, making it a significant site for both tourists and researchers interested in agricultural sciences and architecture.