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...ultimately, the Library's greatest impact may prove to be on the daily life of Harvard Square. Though this plan have not yet been made public, architect I.M. Pei has said that he is considering placing University buildings, low-rent offices for student organizations, and stores run any local merchants on the site...
...Pei decided long ago that in addition to the buildings housing the literary and its components, other structures would have to go up on the 2-acre site. The library complex will include an area set aside as a memorial to President Kennedy, a building containing the archives of his administration, a museum, and a building to house the Institute of Politics. But the five, presently used for a repair yard by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, is a large one, and Pie decided early that he did not want to have large expanses of grass of parkland. The Library...
...purposes dead to Harvard. Less concretely, one can imagine an area that greatly -- and beneficially -- changes the nature of the Square and of the University. But this last will not happen accidentally; if the University decides to make such use of the land, it must virtually look over Pei's shoulder while he does his planning...
...back lot, used to bristle with cowboys and Indians, and before that was Tom Mix's ranch-cost $43 million. So far, Alcoa has spent an additional $160 million for the hotel, two 13-story office buildings, a big shopping center, and a pair of I. M. Pei-designed apartment towers, billed as "Your prestige address in America's modern Acropolis...
First, they say, the area around the Bennett St. Yards does not seem notably "blighted" and might not easily qualify as a renewal project. If the actual Bennett St. Yards were included in the project area, chances might be better. However, I. M. Pei, architect for the Library, does not favor putting his construction site under federal renewal laws...