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AFTER THREE YEARS of dodging dump trucks, cranes, and cement minors, after being constantly forced into Quincy Street on the way to William James or the Bio labs. Harvard students can be happy that Gund Hall is finally finished. The dedication festivities tonight provide in occasion for members of the architectural jet set, GSD faculty, and old alumni to engage in cocktail conversation about the beauties of the Building, Very late Friday night the Janitors will sweep away the last remains of the ceremonies and the GSD students can finally settle down to working in Gund Hall...
...While Gund Hall rose agonizingly to the east of Mem Hall, students and visitors could gaze down on its model in the Great Space of Robinson Hall, former home of the GSD. From the model viewer's God's and the Harvard course cataloque's vantage point, one's attention was centered on the football stadium tiered studio roof--a feature than cannot be seen from any ground view. Rather, when coming out of the year and looking past Mem Hall the image is not of a football stadium but of a "medieval-modern" fortress with its fiberglass parapets...
...isolated building. No attempt was made to fit Gund Hall into its setting by relating it to nearby buildings -- and small wonder with neighbors like William James, the Busch Riesinger Museum, the Church of New Jerusalem. Memorial Hall and Burr Lecture Hall. But it at least blocks the view of William James. Also the Busch-Reisinger museum regains some of its distinctiveness by being removed from its confrontation with Harvard's precursor to the World Trade Center...
However, after this initial reaction of uneasiness, and perhaps repulsion, at Gund Hall's haughty self-importance and monumentality, one finds that it is possible by noticing and exploring details to warm oneself to the building. It's a fun building to snoop around in, to explore new spaces, to scramble up the staircases and to imagine oneself locked in battle with snipers on the roof of Mem Hall. The South side patios on each studio floor provide ideal places in the Spring and Fall to catch a little sun or eat lunch as the sun is intensified...
...Design School also paid a portion of the cost for the Chilled Water Plant, which is connected to the new Science Center. The Plant will air-condition Gund Hall and other new buildings north of the Yard, as well as the Science Center itself...