Architectural Record features the MIT Metropolitan Warehouse Renovation, in feature “A Warehouse is Converted Into the New Home for Architecture at MIT”. An industrial-age monolith, the Metropolitan Warehouse at MIT, is a hub for design and the new home of the departments, labs, and centers of the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) and the Morningside Academy for Design. A series of carved-out voids distributed across the five separate buildings accommodates makerspaces, design studios, research spaces, and community spaces. Within each void, a long-span stack of studios suspended from the existing roof brings light into the heart of the building.

“The muscular solidity of the structure is still evident. But now it is interrupted by playful bursts of glass—a flush grid of windows on the southern facade, full-height expanses of curtain wall on the northern facade, a collection of round windows like portholes on the back. ” –Izzy Kornblatt, Architectural Record

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Image: Cover of Architectural Record Issue

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