Spangler Center
Spangler Center | |
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General information | |
Location | Spangler Center at Harvard Business School, |
Address | 117 Western Ave |
Town or city | Boston, Massachusetts |
Country | United States |
Robert A.M. Stern Architects |
The Spangler Center is a building on the
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., across the street from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
, opening in 2021.
Overview
The building was named in honor of billionaire alumnus Clemmie Spangler, who made a donation to towards the construction.[1] It cost $32 million in total.[2] Its construction was completed in 2001.[1]
According to the HBS website, the building "is considered the main student center for MBAs."[1] It includes "29 project rooms", "a 350-seat auditorium", "IT Support Services, a branch of The Coop bookstore, a business center, a post office retail outlet, Student Association offices, a course material distribution center, and an ATM" as well as the Meredith Room, named for Spangler's wife, and the Williams Room, named for HBS professor Charles M. Williams.[1]
Architectural design
The building was designed in the
Robert A.M. Stern Architects.[1] In Architect Magazine, Witold Rybczynski wrote that it "resembles a large country house."[3] In The Boston Globe, critic Robert Campbell called it "the best piece of traditional architecture to be built in Greater Boston since the early decades of the twentieth century."[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e "Spangler Center". Harvard Business School. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
- ^ a b "Classics, Old and New". Harvard Magazine. March 1, 2001. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
- ^ Rybczynski, Witold (October 14, 2014). "Witold Rybczynski: Tata Hall and the Art of Adding to the Harvard Business School Campus". Architect Magazine. Retrieved October 13, 2017.