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Yamasaki began with an awkward lot, bisected by Nicollet Avenue, scheduled to become a pedestrian mall ending in a park. Instead of obstructing the vista, Yamasaki resolved to enhance it. But how? He considered lifting the structure on stilts ("It would have been like going through a tunnel"), putting in an archway ("But that would have cut the building up"), moving it off to one side ("Then the building would not have been visible from Nicollet Avenue, and we had a beautiful location...
...high-rise building will contain offices, seminar rooms, common rooms, a lounge, and a cafeteria. It will probably be connected to Littauer by a bridge, tunnel, or arcade...
...tunnel runs from in front of the Littauer Center for Public Administration to Brattle Square; it is already being used by electric-powered buses...
Constant checks will be made to determine if the buses are emitting any harmful fumes in the tunnel. The buses are equipped with catalytic muillers designed to eliminate noxious gasses from the buzes exhausts. The muillers have been approved by the State Department of Health...
...Alan McClennen '33. Camblidge Planning Director, told the City Council that the MBTA was 100 per cent for the idea of running the buses into the tunnel. Buses running on electric power already use the tunnel as their Harvard Square station, he added...