John Harvard's Journal

Updated 6.22.2017

Baker, Bisected

March-April 2004

The reconstruction of Harvard Business School's Baker Library to incorporate a 100,000-square-foot new "academic center" and reorient the entrance toward Allston began with the cleaving off of the building's existing back side. The project in progress is shown in this January view.

Photograph by Jim Harrison

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