Harvard - Allston Campus

New auditorium for HBS.

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^^^^ Image link doesn't seem to want to work. This is Klarman Hall, with 1,000 seats. It will be located on the northern fringe of the parking lots on Western Ave.

It will replace Burden Hall, a smaller auditorium built in 1971. Once Klarman is finished, Burden will be demolished, and a smaller building holding additional conference/exhibition space will be built on the site of Burden. the smaller hall is called G-2.

http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org/getattachment/8f8aa1a9-d05e-46de-a37e-5319e7e4e19f
 
stellarfun said:
Harvard Dean predicts Western Ave in Allston will become an engineering hub.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/...on-district/BoFQNG4rqFHavVs0dwTubO/story.html
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Stel -- sounds like wishful wishing

Perhaps to jump start the process the Blvd should be called ZukerGates and the facades of the buildings should resemble Facebook pages on a Windows10 background

Or maybe they should do a reprise of the SX-70 Polaroid Camera building shape and rename the road Land Blvd Extension

It's also interesting how all the Harvard-based game-changer successes were created by dropouts
 
Brad Plaid said:
This isn't doing Rawn's brand any favors, I would expect something interesting from him. This looks like one of Stern's typical forgeries.
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It's next to Spangler, so they're first cousins. And long-term, both Klarman and Spangler will be hidden from view by whatever gets built on the parking lots on Western Ave.

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The first three are a B-school building, the fourth is on Mt. Auburn St. Both by the same architect, both took four years. You get what the client wants, in the latter instance, Harvard.
 
Hutchison said:
IMPNF - NPC for the Science and Engineering Building:

http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org/getattachment/1f648ef5-faef-4d55-b3f1-b61c55f9896c
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2 comments: Let no one tell you that Harvard SEAS is a teaching institution, apparently. You need a microscope to find the classrooms and lecture halls here. Second, The point of having weird angles to buildings is to maximize exterior wall space and natural light. Why do interior rooms have weird shapes? It increases construction cost and complexity and makes vacuuming in there painful for decades. Also, again, the classrooms are all windowless interior spaces. Does Behnisch have something against students, that they never want them to see the sun?

It's much better-looking than the Stata Center, but it suffers from a lot of the same issues.
 
OH YAY new streetnames!

> Academic Way
> Science Drive

WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY

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Seriously, this has to stop. I've written the BRA repeatedly about this. They refer me to BTD. BTD refers me to the mayor's office, who refers me to BTD. Please stop this madness. These names would be bland even for a shopping center on the outskirts of Aventura.
 
Shepard said:
OH YAY new streetnames!

> Academic Way
> Science Drive

WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY

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Seriously, this has to stop. I've written the BRA repeatedly about this. They refer me to BTD. BTD refers me to the mayor's office, who refers me to BTD. Please stop this madness. These names would be bland even for a shopping center on the outskirts of Aventura.
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Write an op ed or get in touch with the globe and have them write something
 
Shepard said:
OH YAY new streetnames!

> Academic Way
> Science Drive

WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY
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I'm a big campaigner on this, but unless any buildings have addresses that make these names prominent, they're pretty harmless next to the horror show that is the South Boston Waterfront. Every campus has a "Campus Drive"...
 
Equilibria said:
2 comments: Let no one tell you that Harvard SEAS is a teaching institution, apparently. You need a microscope to find the classrooms and lecture halls here. Second, The point of having weird angles to buildings is to maximize exterior wall space and natural light. Why do interior rooms have weird shapes? It increases construction cost and complexity and makes vacuuming in there painful for decades. Also, again, the classrooms are all windowless interior spaces. Does Behnisch have something against students, that they never want them to see the sun?

It's much better-looking than the Stata Center, but it suffers from a lot of the same issues.
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Despite the references to them in the PNF, I doubt you will see many undergraduate classes here other than maybe a couple labs that need more modern space than that on the Cambridge campus. Harvard aims to give a broad education, not one focused solely on engineering. There is a huge pressure for classes to remain on the main campus, where students can walk from a "Thermodynamics" class to one on "Environmental Ethics" rather than taking a shuttle to and from Allston multiple times a day. A shuttle bus is not part of the Harvard "Undergraduate Experience" one pays a quarter of a million dollars for.

This campus is purely research + a few graduate classes.
 
FK4 said:
Write an op ed or get in touch with the globe and have them write something
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Tried this. And I'm actually an eloquent, persuasive writer.

"Oh look, another old man yelling at a cloud" is how they respond (in their heads of course, because obviously nobody even bothers with even a courteous thanks-for-trying form letter)
 
The PMF tabulates the number of 'commuting' faculty and staff as 360, the number of 'commuting' graduate students as 1,000, and 60 'other institutional' 'commuters'. The tabulation specifically notes no undergraduates are included in the tabulation.
 
stellarfun said:
The PMF tabulates the number of 'commuting' faculty and staff as 360, the number of 'commuting' graduate students as 1,000, and 60 'other institutional' 'commuters'. The tabulation specifically notes no undergraduates are included in the tabulation.
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Could that just be because they aren't "commuting", though?

I hadn't understood quite what Harvard was doing here - I thought the point of greenfielding SEAS was to consolidate functions. I get that they want classes to be convenient, but if Harvard intends for a Kendall-style innovation campus to grow around this building, how does isolating undergraduates from it make sense? Also, if you make professors commute to/from Harvard Square to teach, that just gives them an incentive to get out of doing it (and to hold inconvenient/very strict office hours).

This entire scheme just seems a little under-cooked to me, and it seriously de-values undergraduate teaching in favor of research. If I were a high schooler applying to schools, this would send me a message (yes, it's HARVARD, but...)
 
Shepard said:
OH YAY new streetnames!

> Academic Way
> Science Drive

WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY
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New street names are proposed by the developments and approved by the Public Improvement Commission (PIC), which has a number of members including Public Works, BTD, ISD, BWSC, etc. If you have a problem with the names, voice your opinion at a PIC meeting. They're held every other Thursday at City Hall, 8th floor.
 
It is a shame this project does not include a new museum space for the Harvard Museum of Natural History and Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology as was originally discussed. Harvard has one of the best collections of natural history and human cultures in the world, and it is crammed into a great building that is unfortunately not big enough for it's magnificence to be displayed.

Chicago is building the Lucas Museum, Philly is building a Museum about the American Revolution, Boston's building boom is great, but Boston MUST start working on it's next great museum to remain considered a top tier museum city and this would be a doozy.

Too bad Menino practically chased them out of town when it was originally hypothesized.
 
Equilibria said:
Could that just be because they aren't "commuting", though?

I hadn't understood quite what Harvard was doing here - I thought the point of greenfielding SEAS was to consolidate functions. I get that they want classes to be convenient, but if Harvard intends for a Kendall-style innovation campus to grow around this building, how does isolating undergraduates from it make sense? Also, if you make professors commute to/from Harvard Square to teach, that just gives them an incentive to get out of doing it (and to hold inconvenient/very strict office hours).

This entire scheme just seems a little under-cooked to me, and it seriously de-values undergraduate teaching in favor of research. If I were a high schooler applying to schools, this would send me a message (yes, it's HARVARD, but...)
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Back in the day, the science complex was to be built in two phases. The first phase, where it is now, and a second, to the west of it along Western Ave. to Travis St. The original idea was to have Harvard's stem cell institute be located in phase 1, but when the overall project was delayed, Harvard renovated at great expense one of the Cambridge science buildings, and put stem cell in it.

So its a case of continually moving parts, and getting buy-in from carious departments in several of the Schools to move to Allston.

At one time, Public Health was to move from greatly overcrowded space in Longwood to Allston, but no indication that will ever happen. Allston initially had more of a biological sciences / pharma focus, less so now.

This is the current division.

Allston
Computer science (including Computational Science & Engineering, IACS, CRCS)
Robotics, mechanics, foundry prototyping
Translational life sciences/bio-engineering
Soft condensed matter
Wyss Institute Cambridge platforms (Wyss is also bio-engineering)
Soft materials

Cambridge
Environmental science & engineering
Nano-technology
Hard condensed matter
Hard materials
Electrical engineering
Applied mathematics

I don't know what the plans are for Dworkin (in Cambridge) which was built with a Gates/Ballmer gift.
 
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