Tag: Buildings

  • Nation & World

    A college, 98 feet long

    Long-anticipated renovations will begin this summer, preserving the building’s legacy while also bringing it into the 21st century.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The hunger for live theater

    Harvard President Drew Faust was about to cut the giant ribbon stretched across the stage of the New College Theatre when a shrill voice called out from the back of the audience:

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    This month in Harvard history

    October 1836 — In the “North American Review,” Henry Russell Cleveland, Class of 1827, aims a verbal wrecking ball at Harvard’s buildings:

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Fanfare, dramaturges mark dedication

    The dusty old grand dame of Harvard theater has gotten a new lease on life, and what was once known as the Hasty Pudding Theatre has been reborn as the New College Theatre, a state-of-the-art facility boasting the latest in technology, ambience, and creature comforts.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Jason Luke

    You might not know Jason Luke ’94, but you know his work. He’s associate director for custodial and support services at Harvard’s Facilities Maintenance Operations. That makes him the Commencement superintendent who every June transforms the campus into a well-oiled machine for merriment (and solemnity).

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Kate Loosian

    Kate Loosian is a senior project manager with Harvard Real Estate Services, where she keeps an educated eye on building renovations at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. (She has a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Notre Dame.)

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard takes the LEED in green buildings

    If you could fly in a small plane over Harvard, looking down wouldn’t tell you much about the University’s sustainable buildings.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Nathan Gauthier

    He’s only 31, but Nathan Gauthier has had an adventurous life so far. He spent two years with the Peace Corps in Ecuador, studied red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico, shot underwater video for NASA, and worked as a fisheries biologist in Washington state and Hawaii.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Wassersteins give $25 million to HLS

    The Wasserstein family has made a $25 million gift to Harvard Law School to support construction of Wasserstein Hall, the new academic center of the Harvard Law School (HLS) campus, Dean Elena Kagan announced today (March 22). The gift is the second biggest in the Law School’s history.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Greener building a ‘model of restoration’

    The occasion was the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new headquarters of University Operations Services (UOS) on Blackstone Street, Cambridge.

    4 minutes