Archinect - News2024-05-04T13:04:17-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150341708/deborah-berke-partners-unveils-completed-adaptive-reuse-project-for-harvard-law-school
Deborah Berke Partners unveils completed adaptive reuse project for Harvard Law School Josh Niland2023-03-07T15:35:00-05:00>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6d/6dc04e940ff9ed3159dbb07f42978430.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>A transformational new adaptive reuse project for <a href="https://archinect.com/harvard" target="_blank">Harvard</a> Law School’s Lewis International Law Center has been completed recently by <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/1466/deborah-berke-partners" target="_blank">Deborah Berke Partners</a>.</p>
<p>Meant to “holistically” meet the demands posed by modern legal education, the project remade the original 1957 <a href="https://archinect.com/shepleybulfinch" target="_blank">Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbott</a> design into a “porous, open connector” located at the heart of HLS’ Cambridge campus.</p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c6/c642b73dbc909c66ead4ca3407070f57.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c6/c642b73dbc909c66ead4ca3407070f57.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Photo: Chris Cooper, courtesy Deborah Berke Partners</figcaption></figure><p>Existing limestone edifices were removed to add an influx of natural light into the structure, which retained 80% of its original concrete foundation, steel-frame structure, and most of its modernist envelope. Terraces were added to the fifth floor and rooftop. A slate of new or repositioned entrances now helps to define the project’s exterior renovations, with the end of enabling greater accessibility to a campus that is now addressed from all sides.<br></p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/66/6642fb09f894d8e502b6a31abd3797aa.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/66/6642fb09f894d8e502b6a31abd3797aa.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Photo: Chris Cooper, courtesy Deborah Berke Partners</figcaption></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0e/0e576c989fa2fd20ab64ee618f6d29d3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0e/0e576c989fa2fd20ab64ee618f6d29d3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Photo: Chris Cooper, courtesy Deborah Ber...</figcaption></figure>