Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clearly, Bok was still not completely sure that the library would blend visually with the Yard. The Pusey Library will be the first new building under his presidency, although he supervised the design of several buildings while he was dean of the Law School. The two most recent buildings at Harvard--Gund Hall and the Science Center--have raised a huge storm of criticism from students and faculty...
...said that no Corporation members had any objections to the library's final design. However, he refused to publicly release photographs of a model of the library, because, he said, he wasn't sure whether the Board of Overseers' approval was required before the model could be released. "I'd like to release the plans now, but I don't want a bunch of angry Overseers who wanted prior viewing of the plans on my hands," Bok said...
...next day, March 5, Bok conferred with Robert Shenton, Secretary to the Overseers and the Corporation, and found that he could legally release the design. However, he decided to "do the nice thing and show the plans to the Overseers before releasing them," and another week passed before the library plans were available to the University community...
...library's top floor will, however, be devoted to study space. It will have carrels for 60 graduate students and 30 faculty, as well as open tables and a few seminar rooms. Stubbins has not yet finalized the library's interior design, but he says that it will have about 30,000 feet of floor space. It will be connected by underground passageways to the three libraries surrounding...
Everyone concerned with the library agrees that, amid all this sagacious planning and brilliant design, there will be one major problem: construction. The library's site is, unfortunately, on a bed of rock that will have to be blasted out before building can start. There will be a considerable amount of noise next year while construction crews dig the four-foot deep hole in which the library will rest...