MIT East Campus - Kendall Square Gateway | Cambridge

What is the purpose of the canopy structure? It doesn’t seem to provide protection from the elements given that the T head houses exit outside of the covered area.
It protects the elevator which is where someone is more likely to wait.
 
Neat (and fairly thorough!) write up, with photos, on the Kendall Inbound Head House project:


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Photo (c) John Horner via Architectural Record
 

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