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...response to a community petition filed in 1988, Quincy Square's Inn at Harvard was downzoned about 40 percent to its present height of four stories, according to John Pitkin of the Central Cambridge Neighborhood Association...
...Robert Campbell, architecture critic for The Boston Globe, feels that a substantial building is needed "to anchor that end of Harvard Square," adding that he thinks the Inn "got cut down a little too much...
Despite the change, R. Philip Dowds of Cambridge Citizens for Liveable Neighborhoods (CCLN) accuses the Inn's architects of "using every trick in the zoning book to get every single inch of size out of it." He says the architects have used ruses such as creating a fake roof line and raising dirt around the edge of the construction site to make the building seem smaller...
There is no doubt that the Inn at Harvard in Quincy Square, the DeWolfe St. housing complex and Werner Otto Hall, the annex to the Fogg Art Museum--all of which are expected to be ready for use by the fall--will make a strong architectural impact on campus. But rather than exploring radical new territory, many critics say, the projects for the most part represent an affirmation of Harvard's traditional architectural style...
...Inn was designed by Graham Gund Associates, a well-known Boston firm. Goody Clancy and Associates Inc.--which has designed other Harvard projects in the past, such as the Center for European Studies and the Law School's Austin Hall--planned the DeWolfe St. project. Werner Otto Hall is the product of the award-winning New York firm Gwathmey Siegel and Associates, which designed the recent addition to the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan...