The university is aiming for 240 academic square feet per student, up from 160 square feet presently.
The project which is aimed to accommodate a growing student body, also call for creating a new engineering school in Brooklyn and a satellite campus with dorms and faculty housing on Governors Island. The plan involves adding six million square feet of space, at a projected cost of about $1,000 a square foot, to the existing 15 million square feet.
NYU plans to build one million square feet of new space for a new engineering school at the downtown Metrotech complex in Brooklyn. The institute would unite several academic disciplines around a subject on Governors Island and move the nursing school uptown to the university’s ‘health corridor’ along First Avenue in the East 20s and 30s, where it would share a new space with the dental college.
Cooper, Robertson & Partners is designing the Brooklyn site and the Governor’s Island plan, where landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh is assisting the firm. Polshek Partnership Architects is designing the health corridor.
The 2031 development plan also involves creating new theaters, costume shops and rehearsal studios for the Tisch School of the Arts in a building at Lafayette and East Fourth Street. Half of the new space under the development plan will be in remote sites, while half will be within the walking distance of Washington Square.
