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Harvard's New Museum
May 10, 2011
| Only in an area like ours, where historic structures are painstakingly preserved, would we see this amazing sight. On Saturday, we snapped the remaining three exterior walls and recently enclosed interior courtyard of Harvard?s Fogg Art Museum, in the midst of its restoration and expansion designed by Renzo Piano. |
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| A museum spokesman declined to comment on a Harvard Magazine report that the project, which will increase the museum?s space to 204k SF, has a $350M price tag. In the midst of construction (started January '10 and slated for completion late '13) demolition was recently completed on some prior additions to the original ?27 building and steel columns erected to reinforce the fa ade. This summer, excavation for the new addition?s foundation will start and above-ground construction may get under way in the fall, the Harvard Art Museums? Daron Manoogian says |
