Harvard Art Museums Renovation and Expansion, Cambridge

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Harvard University’s three art museums – the Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger and the Sackler – are being consolidated into one reorganized and upgraded facility, Harvard Art Museums, on the current site of the Fogg Museum on Quincy Street. The restored historic courtyard of the Fogg Art Museum will be at the heart of 18,500 square meters of new museum space. The new facility will combine the Fogg’s protected Georgian revival building, with a new addition on its east side, along Prescott Street. A new glazed rooftop structure bridges the old and the new. The rooftop addition, designed with sensitivity to surrounding historic structures, allows controlled natural light into the conservation lab, study centers, and galleries, as well as the courtyard below. The original 1920s building by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbot Architects, was the first of its kind, combining museum space, teaching and conservation in one facility. Following this tradition, the new center is designed to make the collection of 200,000 objects more accessible.

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• Arquitectura Viva