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...October 1998, the University unveiled a new plan. Coolidge Hall would be razed, along with another Harvard building across the street that houses University Information Systems. In their place, two major new buildings??€”connected by a costly tunnel under Cambridge Street—would form the heart of CGIS. Four historic houses nearby would be renovated for use as Harvard research centers, and one of them the University had to buy and would have to relocate several blocks away at a cost of about $1 million...
After Cambridge residents blasted the buildings??€™ appearances at a series of community meetings, the University sent the architect back to the drawing board and, within 60 hours, returned with a completely redesigned plan, replacing the boxy facades with sweeping arcs of glass windows. Harvard also agreed to reduce the buildings??€™ height and set them farther back from the street...
...Widener Library—one of the University’s most high-profile buildings??€”a second security guard has been placed at the entrance to ensure that everyone who enters the library has a valid Harvard ID, according to library spokesperson Beth Brainard...
Simple security measures—guards and metal detectors at building entrances, ID checks, and bollards, which are concrete pots that guard against car bombs, around key buildings??€”can have a strong deterrent effect...
Favorites? It doesn’t get much better—in terms of rather simple, unadorned buildings??€”than Massachusetts Hall. Sever is also wonderful. For stone, University Hall and Austin Hall are, in different ways, stunning. Memorial Hall is a gem—a rather large and ungainly gem, but still quite wonderful, intricate, large-minded and spirited...