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Campbell Sports Center

Columbia University Building at Baker Field design by Steven Holl Architects, NYC, USA

post updated Mar 29, 2021 ; Oct 11, 2013

Campbell Sports Center Building

The Campbell Sports Center Named Best New Building

In Municipal Arts Society 2013 MASterworks Awards

October 11, 2013 – New York, NY: Steven Holl Architects’ Campbell Sports Center at Columbia University has been named the Best New Building in New York in the 2013 MASterworks Awards, administered by the Municipal Arts Society. The MASterworks Awards celebrate excellence in architecture and urban design in New York City, and recognize the best projects, completed within the last year, that have made significant contributions to the built environment of the city.

Campbell Sports Center Building, Columbia University
picture from Steven Holl Architects

On the northernmost edge of Manhattan, where Broadway crosses with Tenth Avenue and the elevated tracks of the 1 subway line, the Campbell Sports Center forms a new gateway to the Baker Athletics Complex, the primary athletics facility for Columbia University’s outdoor sports program.

The first new athletics building to be constructed on Columbia University’s campus since the Marcellus Hartley Dodge Physical Fitness Center was built in the mid-1970s, the building is the new cornerstone of the revitalized Baker Athletics Complex and provides increased program space for the entire intercollegiate athletics program.

The facility, which adds approximately 48,000 square foot of space, houses strength and conditioning spaces, offices for varsity sports, theater-style meeting rooms, a hospitality suite and student-athlete study rooms.

Campbell Sports Center Columbia University
picture from Steven Holl Architects

The new sport building at Columbia University aims at serving the mind, the body and the mind/body for aspiring scholar-athletes. The design concept “points on the ground, lines in space”—like field play diagrams used for football, soccer, and baseball—develops from point foundations on the sloping site.

Just as points and lines in diagrams yield the physical push and pull on the field, the building’s elevations push and pull in space. The building shapes an urban corner on Broadway and 218th street, then lifts up to form a portal, connecting the playing field with the streetscape.

Extending over a stepped landscape, blue soffits heighten the openness of the urban scale portico to the Baker Athletics Complex. Terraces and external stairs, which serve as “lines in space,” draw the field play onto and into the building and give views from the upper levels over the field and Manhattan.

The winning MASterworks Award projects will be celebrated with a ceremony and cocktail reception at the top of 4 World Trade Center on November 6.

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The design was by the world-famous Manhattan architect practice led by Steven Holl architect, New York City.

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