HARVARD'S PIANO

It's not often that an old building gets knocked down in Cambridge, so we snapped a corner of the old Fogg Art Museum as it bit the dust a few days ago. It's part of a 104k SF historic renovation and 100k SF of new construction that will be the Harvard Art Museum designed by Renzo Piano. The three-year construction project started in January will bring together the collections of the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler museums. A glass-enclosed structure on top will house centers for conservation and study of the collections by scholars and the public. The local architect is Payette, with Skanska as general contractor.
Come by this block (Broadway and Prescott) in 2013, and here's what you'll see, minus the translucent people. They were taken from a ghost town.

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