• The interdisciplinary architecture firm Diller Scofidio+Renfro (DS+R) revealed its plans for Columbia University Medical Center's new medical and graduate education building, a multi-million dollar project funded in part by alumnus P Roy Vagelos, M.D.
• The DS+R design studio is known for its unconventional approach to architecture, incorporating visual and performing arts to their structures, and the 14-story vertically inclined Med school is no exception with its sharp lines and exposed interiors.
• The University hopes to break ground early in 2013, and expects construction to last over three years.

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The design, to be released on Wednesday, is unorthodox for a medical school not only in its verticality and sculptural treatment of exposed interiors but also, according to the architects, in its reflection of a new more collaborative, team-based mode of teaching. …