Here are some of the research buildings being planned and built by Boston universities.
Caitlin Stier
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering (LISE)
Size: 135,000 square feet
Location: Oxford Street in Cambridge
Occupants: Center for Nanoscale Systems and the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Expected occupation: Summer/Fall 2007
Northwest building
Size: 470,000 square feet
Location: northern end of the Harvard campus in Cambridge
Occupants: Center for Systems Biology, Center for Brain Science (including a neuroimaging center)
Expected completion: Spring 2008
Allston science complex
Size: 695,000 square feet
Location: Western Avenue in Allston
Occupants: Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard’s new Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, and other interdisciplinary initiatives
Expected completion: 2010
TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Tufts Regional Biosafety Laboratory (a biosafety level 3 facility)
Size: 37,950 square feet
Location: Grafton, MA
Occupants: Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Expected occupation: June 2009
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (includes a biosafety level 4 facility)
Size: 613,000 square feet
Location: South End, adjacent to the Boston University Medical Campus
Expected completion: 2008
MIT
Cancer research building
Size: 330,000 square feet
Location: Main Street, Cambridge, across from the Broad Institute
Occupants: Center for Cancer Research and related bioengineering laboratories
Expected completion: to be determined
Media Lab
Size: 163,000 square feet
Location: Adjacent and connected to the existing Media Lab building on Ames Street, Cambridge
Occupants: Media Lab, the School of Architecture and Planning, MIT’s Program in Comparative Media Studies
Expected completion: to be determined
See related article on "science architecture":http://network.nature.com/boston/news/articles/2007/04/13/can-buildings-change-the-culture-of-science
Sources:
Tufts Regional Biosafety Laboratory
Harvard’s Allston Initiative
LISE
Northwest
MIT
Boston University
Boston Globe
