Architecture: Cornell Reveals the Architects Competing to Design the First NYC Tech Campus Building: “..Selected from over more than 40 firms from the U.S. and abroad, the finalists include Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Morphosis Architects, Steven Holl Architects and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill helped Cornell design the proposal and continues to refine the master plan for the campus. The school expects to break ground in 2015 with a 150,000 square-foot facility that will include lecture halls and instructional space. Cornell plans to have the facility ready for occupancy by 2017..As The Wall Street Journal states, Gilbert Delgado, Cornell’s university architect, believes this initial, net-zero building will “provide a signature element” that will “set the standard for what’s to follow.”..Cornell plans to announce the selected candidate in April. Several architecture firms will…