Leopoldo Villardi studies the dual-purpose gateway/subway headhouse at Kendall/MIT for Record’s Transportation Issue.
‘A sleek, streamlined canopy, supported by a field of 26-foot-tall columns, hovers over the three prismatic kiosks to unify the composition. It is a fitting urban baldacchino for straphangers and students alike.’
‘It was never meant to be a gem, says Tehrani, but, coming near the conclusion of a campus expansion, “it is like the period at the end of a sentence”—one that has as much to say about urban planning as it does about local placemaking.’
The Kendall/MIT Gateway has been named the Architect’s Newspaper’s Best of Design winner in the infrastructure category.
“The MIT/Kendall Gateway is actually operating as functional infrastructure, not just a public landscape. It is a point of transportation, not just an element leading you to that critical public infrastructure.” —Michelle Franco