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...massive lintels, and the low triangular-coffered ceiling in areas off the atrium, are made of exposed reinforced concrete. But it is not the coarse béton brut introduced to architecture by Le Corbusier. The concrete looks almost as fine as beeswax. Poured into forms as carefully made as cabinets, and impregnated with marble dust, it becomes an extraordinarily subtle substance with a pink surface bloom. Though the building looks handmade throughout, it is reticently so. Nothing in its materials or their articulation interferes with the job in hand: to display works of art in tranquillity...
There were seven works commissioned for the building. Among them: a massive and rotund Henry Moore bronze at the entrance, a large Anthony Caro sculpture gesturing from a ledge in the atrium, an immense Joan Miró tapestry and Robert Motherwell's Reconciliation Elegy, the largest and possibly the last (since democracy has now been restored in Spain) of his 30-year series of Elegies for the Spanish Republic. Hovering over and animating the whole central space is a huge mobile by Alexander Calder, feathery light despite its size, and lazily responding to every air current. Smaller spaces are reserved...
Construction of a new building complex containing four or five retail stores, two restaurants, expanded office space and an indoor atrium on Brattle Street will begin by March 1, Louis F. DiGiovanni, developer of the project, said yesterday...
DiGiovanni said the planned four story atrium would be "an oasis in Harvard Square," containing hanging plants and a tea room type restaurant...
Though the atrium is being built for use by employees in the 54,000 square feet of office space the project will create, the garden will be open to the public. Zum Zum and Chez Dreyfus have closed, and Woolworth's will shut down on January...