Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the sombre facade remains distressingly unaltered, save for stairs at the entrance and air-conditioning equipment atop the mansard roof, the interior has changed beyond recognition. Clever designing increased the usable floor space by 50 per cent without changing the hallowed limestone blocks. Architects Collaborative, which drew the reconstruction plans, gained space primarily by adding an extra floor, in fact one-and-a-half more floors the mezzanine and by eliminating the cavernous stairwell...
With 90 offices, the building will provide space for the staffs of Romance Languages, Germanic Languages, Slavic, History and Literature, Comp Lit, Classics, and Public Speaking (housed in the "attic"). With these numerous offices, the departments will have expanded facilities that will soon allow even the junior members to enjoy private rooms. Specifically-constructed Finnish furniture adorns seminar rooms, a modern library occupies the new mezzanine floor, and the lecture hall--when it loses its canvas protective covering--will have great beauty. "President Pusey gave us one directive," Levin comments, "Get a good-looking lecture room...
...facilities will stand at the corner of Huntington Ave. and Shattuck St. in Boston. They will replace two remodeled hospital buildings and "rented and borrowed" space now adjacent to the construction site...
Plans for deconversion of some suites in all House except Quincy would reduce, from four to three, the number of students now living in a "converted" three-bedroom unit. Since World War II space deficiency has compelled the House to place an excessive amount of students in each suite...
Completion of the Leverett Towers will present the College with 280 more undergraduate rooms. Trottenberg estimated that enrollment will help fill 130 of these space and added that the remaining room will be used to create space for non-resident tutors and reduce the number of students in the older Houses...