MIT Expansion Plans | MIT/Kendall Square | Cambridge

[crash575]

The research reactor is down the street. This is to generate chilled water with steam from the power plant.

There is a little info on the MIT construction list:
http://web.mit.edu/facilities/construction/updates.shtml#n16

 

[AmericanFolkLegend]

MIT Media Lab featured as one of 10 Standout Buildings on CNN. The article mostly covers the down economy's effect on architecture.

 

[Lurker]

Dr. Gordon Freeman would be at home in these environments. Just add some head-crab zombies and a crowbar or two.

 

[crash575]

MIT's new chiller is now clad with silver and terracotta colored alucobond! I think it looks more like a weird spaceship now.

 

[kz1000ps]

Sloan School of Business:

 

[bdurden]

Interesting urban landscaping along Cambridge Street.

 

[Ron Newman]

but no part of MIT is near Cambridge Street.

 

[bdurden]

^ Broadway (Cambridge on the Boston side).

 

[jass]

Surface parking makes a lovely courtyard space

 

[kennedy]

I was just thinking that, jass. Could've been a nice "quad" type of element.

Also, is Sloan really a competitive school (relative to MIT's other schools)? I feel like MIT and a business school don't exactly go hand in hand, but I guess the "IT" part is a bit of a misnomer at this point.

 

[AmericanFolkLegend]

I was just thinking that, jass. Could've been a nice "quad" type of element.

Also, is Sloan really a competitive school (relative to MIT's other schools)? I feel like MIT and a business school don't exactly go hand in hand, but I guess the "IT" part is a bit of a misnomer at this point.

Yeah Sloan is Top 10 maybe even Top 5 MBA schools. Keep in mind that MIT is arguably the best school in the country at turning academics into enterprises.

Edit: Actually #3 on US News & World Report.

 

[unterbau]

Kind of impressive how closely Sloan matches the tower behind it...If that was intentional, gotta wonder 'why?'

 

[tmac9wr]

Misery loves company?

 

[unterbau]

not saying either bldg is bad, just a curious choice

 

[Beton Brut]

Consider the forms and grammar of Sloan against that ugly pile on Fan Pier. Do the better materials and more stylish forms make a difference?

For my part, don't mind how Sloan looks, but dislike how it behaves in its context.

 

[czsz]

I would rather have this on Fan Pier than anything built there now.

 

[kz1000ps]

I must give credit to the architects for trying to fill out a big site. They maintained the streetwall along Memorial Drive (they could've easily set it back 100 feet), and they did as much as they could out back to create a contained space. Alas, the site is way too big for any one building.

 

[Ron Newman]

It's possible that they have yet another expansion in mind for the far future.

 

[kz1000ps]

Surely. That parking lot screams nothing if not 'temporary placeholder'.

 

[Digital_Islandboy]

Kind of impressive how closely Sloan matches the tower behind it...If that was intentional, gotta wonder 'why?'

^ That building you refer to in the rear is where Microsoft is renting their Boston area office space. Building = #1 Memorial Drive.
http://www.onememorialdr.com/ and http://www.MicrosoftCambridge.com/