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...with ever increasing suburbanization due to the automobile. The group sought to create “new ‘hearts of the city’ that would become unique centers of collective vitality,” says Daniels. The CIAM plazas, high-rise housing, pedestrian paths and recreational spaces would become important and recurring elements in Sert’s own work...
Other board members responded positively to the design of the building, which includes five stories raised above the ground to create a pedestrian walkway into the existing courtyard. Two-thirds of the facility will be located underground beneath the courtyard, including specialized laboratory space...
Architect Rafael Moneo said the pedestrian walkway would create a “gate-like building” that would invite people into the courtyard...
...Staff does raise an important point about the need for dramatic improvements in the safety and amenity of pedestrian movement across the river (including, very likely, a new pedestrian bridge), and the Staff might have added the need for direct pedestrian access from any new undergraduate houses to the riverfront as well. These are indeed critical planning and design issues, but to dismiss out of hand the potential benefits of an undergraduate presence in Allston—both to the particular students who may live there and the Harvard more generally of future generations—seems extraordinarily premature...
...design by architect Rafael Moneo calls for a structure of translucent, opaque glass, raised above the ground on three legs that will allow room for pedestrian walkways underneath...