Spangler Campus Center
Harvard Business School
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This 122,000-square-foot campus center for the Harvard Business School serves as the on-campus social center for students, faculty, and alumni, providing dining rooms, meeting rooms, lounges, study rooms, an auditorium, and a variety of student services facilities. The building has been carefully sited to build upon and reinforce McKim, Mead & White's 1927 master plan for the campus. With its red brick and limestone exterior and slate roof, the Spangler Center carries forward the material palette of the historic Business School campus, and the gently curving mass of the building follows the original campus's radial plan. The strategically complex plan, with three distinct points of entry, marks the transition between the historic business school campus which faces north to Cambridge across the Charles River and Harvard University's future growth to the south facing Western Avenue and Boston. Of the building's north-facing entrances, two align axially with entrances to Aldrich Hall, the school's principal classroom building to the north, while a third opens onto the Gordon Drive Circle to the west, the principal vehicular access road for arriving visitors. Two more entrances open to the Center's south-facing courtyard and to the parking lots beyond.
Gary Brewer, Project Partner and Designer
Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Project Partners: Robert Stern, Graham Wyatt, Kevin Smith
Photographer: Peter Aaron, Francis Dzikowski, OTTO