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...Pei, chief architect for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library and Institute, last night unveiled the first detailed plans for the construction of the complex that will extend from Brattle Square to Memorial Drive...
...Pei spoke last night at the St. Paul's School Hall to a meeting sponsored by the Harvard Square Task Force, a city government organization responsible for coordinating planning in the area. Three hundred Cambridge residents attended to hear Pei-and several Cambridge planners and realtors make presentations about the needs of Harvard Square...
...Pei said that of the three million square feet available for constructino these plans call for the utilization of only 100,000 square-feet freeing two and one-half acres for landscaping...
...other developments of the summer, however, has eased a number of fears about the potential traffic trap. City Planning officials, in consultation with Center architect I.M. Pei, reached rough agreement in late July on the location of a major new road to connect Memorial Drive to Boylston Street. Designed to funnel cars from North, South, and West quadrants to the heart of the Library site, it will probably be recessed of built underground for several blocks...
...ironies of the controversy is that the Hancock Building is great architecture-not only handsome but also respectfully mirroring its neighbors and enlivening Copley Square. Indeed, its architect, Harry Cobb of I.M. Pei & Partners, studied the square's history and decided that it was never a secluded enclave of culture, as commonly thought, but rather the meeting place of city-shaping forces. These include the six-lane Massachusetts Turnpike behind the square and a cluster of tall buildings near its uptown and downtown flanks. The Hancock Building thus had to be a high-rise to fit into, and escape...