Located on New York’s Roosevelt Island, the 18-story, 224-key Graduate Hotel, which boasts unobstructed views of Manhattan, marks the entrance to the Cornell Tech campus, a graduate school and research center for Cornell University. The building incorporates a full-service restaurant, indoor-outdoor rooftop bar, and 3,600 square feet of meeting and event facilities. Stonehill Taylor was instrumental in the creation of the lobby space, which features a monolithic 30-foot-tall ceiling made from acoustical plaster. The ceiling’s unique trapezoidal wedge shape points upward towards the East River and Manhattan and aligns with the exterior soffit and façade planes to convey the sense of a mass floating above the ground. The rooftop bar echoes the form of the lobby and features a terrace with commanding views of Roosevelt Island, the East River, and Manhattan. Among the flexible meeting and event spaces is the Minnenhanonck Ballroom, whose sloped concrete buttresses accent the space and create a dialogue with the steel construction of the Queensboro Bridge outside