(madprime– flickr/creative commons license) Cambridge Seven Associates designed the Boston Children’s Museum expansion in 2006. The museum had moved in 1979 to the site of an old brick wool warehouse. This $47m expansion added a modern steel and glazing front …
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(Ben+Sam– flickr/creative commons license) The Liberty Hotel in Boston looks like it was once a church. But in fact it was the Charles Street Jail, built in 1851. Gridley James Fox Bryant’s design followed the Auburn Plan, a rigid incarceration …
(madprime– flickr/creative commons license) Eero Saarinen designed the non-denominational chapel at the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, completed in 1955. A simple circular skylight emits celestial light into the heavy brick, circular building. Like other Modernist buildings, a light moat …
(Luke Faraone– flickr/creative commons license) Fumihiko Maki designed the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning, completed in 2009. The $90m project ran behind schedule. The original Wiesner Building was designed by I.M.Pei. Stairways …
The 720,000ft² Stata Center by Frank Gehry stands near Simmons Hall by Steven Holl on the MIT campus in Cambridge Massachusetts. The Center facilitates the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, and the …
The New England Aquarium was designed by Cambridge Seven Associates in 1969 with a recent IMAX addition by E. Verner Johnson and Associates and a new wing designed by Schwartz/Silver Architects in 1989. With a new deconstructivist style and an …
(bbaunach– flickr/creative commons license) The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston engages the shoreline in an intense way. Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s design, which opened in 2006, has been criticized for poor circulation and casting shadow on Boston’s “only viable …
(Aleksandr Zykov– flickr/creative commons license) The facade of Simmons Hall by Steven Holl Architects at MIT campus was inspired from a sponge. The porous material is able to absorb a great amount of water without changing appearance. Five different …