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Knowles also enhanced the physical resources of FAS, playing a crucial role in the creation or renovation of many of the Faculty’s landmarks, including the Barker Center, Boylston Hall and the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS). Now in its first stages of construction, CGIS will ultimately unite the government department with many of Harvard’s international and regional studies centers in a single location...
...tunnel was intended to connect the two buildings of the new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS). But because Harvard could not meet the demands of the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association—which included a ten-year moratorium on future building—and because negotiations broke down, no agreement could be reached. Harvard’s decision to scrap the tunnel marked the culmination of six years of rancorous negotiations between the University and the city of Cambridge over the building’s design...
Noriko Katayama walks this route every day, and as several large buildings were demolished recently to make way for CGIS, she began to wonder what was going to happen to the one house that was left...
Meanwhile, Tom Simister, a designer with the Casali Group, the firm managing the day-to-day construction details of CGIS, drifts around the site recording the sounds of the day with equipment borrowed from his girlfriend, who works for National Public Radio...
Even if it’s not part of his work for CGIS, Simister says he still wants to make the documentary on his own just...