Word: redesign
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Last Wednesday, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino asked Harvard to redesign a proposal for graduate student housing in Allston, after hearing that residents were outraged over the 21-story structure...
Rudenstine. "In view of that, and because inevitably this project is an important signal of Harvard's larger presence in Boston in the years to come...I must request a redesign to occur...
Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Harry Gugger and Christine Binswanger, who share credit for the redesign, were smart enough not to mess too much with the building. "Sir Giles Scott created a monument," says Gugger. "We wanted to blur the boundaries of the monument, to turn it into open space." Blur is the right word. It's the gentle transformation of a giant. The most astonishing thing about it may be that a looming, great, scary industrial complex could become something so polite...
...says the letter shows "this is what we hope the redesign will mean to your child--not an educational explanation...
...part of the redesign, CRLS' five existing houses, which vary in size and teaching style, will become evenly-sized schools that use similar curriculum...