Spangler Center

42°21′55″N 71°07′28″W / 42.3651974°N 71.1243886°W / 42.3651974; -71.1243886Completed2001OwnerHarvard Business SchoolTechnical detailsFloor count2Design and constructionArchitect(s)Robert A.M. Stern Architects

The Spangler Center is a building on the Boston campus of Harvard Business School. Harvard Business School is in Allston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., across the street from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, opening in 2021.

Overview

The building was named in honor of billionaire alumnus Clemmie Spangler, who made a donation to towards the construction.^[1] It cost $32 million in total.^[2] Its construction was completed in 2001.^[1]

According to the HBS website, the building "is considered the main student center for MBAs."^[1] It includes "29 project rooms", "a 350-seat auditorium", "IT Support Services, a branch of The Coop bookstore, a business center, a post office retail outlet, Student Association offices, a course material distribution center, and an ATM" as well as the Meredith Room, named for Spangler's wife, and the Williams Room, named for HBS professor Charles M. Williams.^[1]

Architectural design

The building was designed in the Georgian Revival architectural style by Robert A.M. Stern Architects.^[1] In Architect Magazine, Witold Rybczynski wrote that it "resembles a large country house."^[3] In The Boston Globe, critic Robert Campbell called it "the best piece of traditional architecture to be built in Greater Boston since the early decades of the twentieth century."^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Spangler Center". Harvard Business School. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Classics, Old and New". Harvard Magazine. March 1, 2001. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
^ Rybczynski, Witold (October 14, 2014). "Witold Rybczynski: Tata Hall and the Art of Adding to the Harvard Business School Campus". Architect Magazine. Retrieved October 13, 2017.

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