Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spite of all the controversy involved with the dorm site, Canaday is only a temporary solution. By the time it is open for occupancy, the Continental will have been given over to graduate students, and in spite of the 200 students housed in Canaday, the University will have 100 extra bodies on its hands. And at this time, no one know where those bodies will be housed...
...SPACE is still needed for books, plans call for the demolition of 17 Quincy Street, the President's House, which is now used as office space for the Corporation, and the erection of an above-ground library on the site...
...that it replaces. Critics say that the compromise between unobtrusiveness and some degree of exposure to light and air for those who will use the library has resulted in a building which is neither inconspicuous nor aesthetically pleasing. In any case, the undergraduates who will carefully avoid the construction site will not be permitted inside once Pusey is finished. Everyone except graduate students, Faculty, and those who need to use special collections will be turned away from the library...
...building was an instant failure. The Crimson said, "The lines of the building are hardly what the College had hoped for." Observers found the building "squatty," "awkward," or wished that it had more height and more windows. When Memorial Church was built just south of its site, Hunt became a hidden anomaly in the Yard, chopping at the tall white spire of the proud Church...
...STICKIEST of Harvard's building projects is the Kennedy Library complex, to be built on a 12-acre site now occupied by subway yards across Boylston Street from Eliot House. The development is the work of the Kennedy Corporation, which is in charge of the Kennedy Library and a museum exhibiting Kennedy Administration memorabilia on the site, but the complex will also include the Kennedy School of Government and the Institute of Politics, both Harvard institutions. The subway yards will be vacated by the MBTA in May 1974, and the library is slated to be finished...