Columbia University, New York University, and other schools are planting ever larger footprints throughout Manhattan. But the Big Apple has plenty of company in managing tensions between academic institutions and their urban neighbors. Boston, the quintessential college town, is in for major changes as its schools accelerate their building programs. Although local officials generally welcome such projects, some plans are testing town-gown relationships.
The expansion of Harvard University’s campus in Allston, on the Boston side of the Charles River, commences in earnest this spring with groundbreaking on a 1-million-square-foot, $1 billion science center designed by Behnisch Architekten. The four-building complex of mid-rise Modernist structures is the first project in the school’s significant Allston build-up, which will likely include the relocation of Harvard’s schools of public health and education, as well as the construction of new student housing, museums, and performance space under a master plan created by Cooper Robertson & Partners, Frank Gehry, and the Olin Partnership.
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