At Columbia’s $600 million business school, time to rethink capitalism

A view from outside Henry R. Kravis Hall of its 'network' stairs, with landings that open to informal lounges, at Columbia Business School in Manhattan, Nov 14, 2022. On the school's developing campus in the Manhattanville neighborhood, the architecture of Diller Scofidio + Renfro reinforces a social movement in business education to do good as well as make money. [Zack DeZon/The New York Times]

NEW YORK - One zigs, the other zags. One teases the passerby with bands of translucent glass wrapping a core of clear windows; the other, with floors angled in and out - a gentle architectural mambo. The pair of buildings that comprise Columbia University's new business school, on its growing Manhattanville campus, exude a nervous off-kilter energy.

The 11-story Henry R. Kravis Hall, named for the co-founder of the private equity firm KKR, rises in front of the delicate steel-arched viaduct carrying Riverside Drive. It is separated from an eight-story structure named for entertainment mogul David Geffen by a circle of grass, trees and benches embedded in a plaza. The ensemble joins a sleek new campus that so far includes a neuroscience research center, an arts center, and a think-tank-style building, called The Forum, devoted to academic discourse.

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