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Parishioners and residents of the neighborhood around the chapel complained last spring that the proposed height of the new building would block light from coming through the windows of the chapel. After much negotiation, Harvard compromised, revising the Knafel blueprints and leaving the chapel's stained glass windows open to light...
...from Harvard's community relations department spoke on behalf of the chapel's protection. I say unusual both because Harvard has always been hesitant to limit its own expansion options and because it was about this same time last year that Swedenborg parishioners were fighting the construction of the Knafel Center, which is to house Harvard's Center for International Studies (HCIS) and other programs...
...result, the IRC has begun exploring other space options, including purchasing a private office and petitioning for space in the proposed Knafel Center, which will house the Center for International Studies...
...much-discussed Knafel Center, still in the planning stages, would be Harvard's most ambitious attempt to foster interdisciplinary cooperation, containing half a dozen such research groups...
From the two-year-old Barker Center to the proposed Knafel Center, the Fairbanks to the Shorenstein and the recently announced centers for genomics and proteomics, Harvard is in the vanguard of a movement using architecture to enhance research...