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Architect I.M. Pei has decided to "rethink" his plans for the Kennedy Library in response to community criticism of the project, leaving Maguire with only a concept of the library to work with...
...public meeting Wednesday sponsored by Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, Maguire project director George Grant said Pei's library plan is undergoing "major revision." Unless Pei releases the plans within a month, Grant said, Maguire will not be able to meet its June deadline...
...professors made it clear that they welcome the presence of the archives and the Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge. But their concern with congestion problem focused even on the physical structure of the library, a monolithic design by I.M. Pei, which they fear will draw visitors to the memorial...
...full story starts in 1965 when the Massachusetts legislature gave the federal government land for building a Kennedy Library complex. Architect I.M. Pei developed a plan dividing the 12.2 acre Charles River site--now occupied by the Bennett-Eliot MBTA Yards--into four sections--5.3 acres for the Kennedy museum, archives, plaza and Institute of Politics; 3 acres for related facilities; 1.7 acres for street improvements; and 2.2 acres for Harvard construction...
...move unless it can have the same facilities that it has now--an unlikely prospect in light of the distinct, secluded atmosphere of the present building. While cautioning that it is too early for a final decision, Stanley Hoffman appears skeptical about the new building: "We met with Pei and told him we did not want a Pentagon. If by some miracle he does come through, then we would move...