John Harvard's Journal
Uncommon Space
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The plaza between Harvard Yard and the Science Center has been remade as a campus crossroads. It features fixed and movable seating, anchors for reunion tents, wiring for movie nights and other performances, and a trilevel planting of ginkgo trees, sumacs, and ferns to soften the Science Center facade and provide shade and year-round visual interest. Chris Reed ’91 of Stoss Landscape Urbanism [5] was the principal designer; for details, see “A ‘Common Space’ at Harvard’s Crossroads.” [6]