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Site
Two buildings located on either side of Cambridge Street at Prescott Street, east of Gund Hall on the Harvard University campus
| |  | | Cambridge, MassachusettsGross Floor Area
226,800 s/f including 94,300 s/f below grade Client
Harvard University Time Frame
Planning: 6/98–
Construction: 2/03–
Dedication: 11/4/05 |
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| |  | Center for Government and International Studies, Harvard University |
| Cambridge, Massachusetts
Completed 2005
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| Landscaped university complex incorporating teaching facilities, library, café, research centers and offices
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The Center for Government and International Studies houses the Department of Government and
various research centers affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. The Center includes new and existing structures in an integrated complex accommodating a range of academic and administrative uses, including faculty offices, classrooms, library and computer facilities, the Harvard-MIT Data Center, and a café. The new complex unites members of the Government Department in a single location
alongside the thriving research centers. It promotes both formal and informal interactions among faculty from different departments and disciplines and with visiting scholars from other universities in the United States and abroad. It provides space for graduate students in close proximity to their faculty advisers and to students in related fields, thus deepening the mentoring relationship so essential to graduate education and opening opportunities for first- and second-year graduate
students to learn from and interact with their more advanced colleagues. And, by including undergraduate instruction among the functions of the new complex, it will provide Harvard College students with the opportunity to learn in a modern facility while increasing their opportunities for everyday contact with faculty, tutors, and teaching fellows. |
| Knafel Building: 5-story atrium, Library, Data Center, interior Wintergarden, Café, faculty and graduate student offices, seminar rooms, interconnection to the Graduate School of Design (Gund Hall), exterior Garden
South Building: 5-story atrium, 149-seat Lecture Hall, 60-seat Case
Study room, seminar rooms, faculty and graduate student offices, exterior sunken garden |
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners services |
| Site analysis, programming, community interface,
public approvals, full Architectural Services, Interior Design |
| Olin Partnership, Philadelphia, PA |
| LeMessurier Consultants, Cambridge, MA |
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Mechanical / Electrical / Plumbing |
| Cosentini Associates, Inc., Cambridge, MA |
| Cosentini Lighting Design, New York, NY |
| Acentech, Cambridge, MA |
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