New Harvard Economics building

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The new Economics building located between the Littauer Center and Austin Hall, near the Science Center, has started construction. It is slated for completion in 2027.

Major funding was provided by Penny Pritzker, so it will probably end up with Pritzker in the name.

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Paging Robert Stern!

Hes built a few beautiful brick buildings around Harvard that nobody knows are relatively recent unless youre super deep in the weeds. No reason he couldnt deliver another one here.

Those new buildings in Allston yards are not exactly a glaring beacon of a warm, welcoming, human scaled, addition to the campus. Theyre not exactly on a roll lately. They should just keep with the collegiate gothic… well in Harvards case collegiate federal? You really cant go wrong. Literally everybody loves that style and its been successful for hundreds of years. Does anyone on planet earth not like federal style architecture? Harvard is world renowned for it, why deviate from that so much? That thing above isnt completely horrendous, but they can for sure do much better imo.
 
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stick n move said:
Paging Robert Stern!

Hes built a few beautiful brick buildings around Harvard that nobody knows are relatively recent unless youre super deep in the weeds. No reason he couldnt deliver another one here.

Those new buildings in Allston yards are not exactly a glaring beacon of a warm, welcoming, human scaled, addition to the campus. Theyre not exactly on a roll lately. They should just keep with the collegiate gothic… well in Harvards case collegiate federal? You really cant go wrong. Literally everybody loves that style and its been successful for hundreds of years. Does anyone on planet earth not like federal style architecture? Harvard is world renowned for it, why deviate from that so much? That thing above isnt completely horrendous, but they can for sure do much better imo.
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The schools out there that have leaned into the collegiate revival look seem to go more gothic over federal (Yale, Vanderbilt, BC etc). I’m sure there are some great examples out there of neo-Federalist architecture but too often it’s a misfire.
 
Yea one would have to be Robert Sterns bloomberg center expansion at harvard in 2005.

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There was a more experimental time period in the 2010’s where some kitschy stuff got built and sometimes it still happens, but within the last few years its been getting exponentially better. Youre starting to see a legit movement bubbling up below the surface and the quality is getting much better. Thats just in the us, in Europe theyve gotten much more time under their belt and are doing an amazing job. Plus theyre doing full on rebuilds like the budapest palace and associated accessory buildings plus the berlin schloss or notre dame. So theres also architects outside of the US that are available too doing amazing work.

The sky is the limit these days you can get whatever you want from some crazy futuristic twisting glass building with automatic sun shades to a perfectly crafted neoclassical building with passive house rating and modern construction.
 
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