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The striking cantilevered design of Boston University’s new data sciences center offers more than just visual interest: The building boasts several terraces for open-air meetings. 

The striking cantilevered design of Boston University’s new data sciences center offers more than just visual interest: The building boasts several terraces for open-air meetings. 

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Design

Staid Boston Gets an Architectural Wake-Up Call

In a city with a history of conservative design, these three adventurous new buildings are seizing some much-needed attention.

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After years of could-be-anywhere glass towers sprouting up around town, Boston is suddenly showing a little architecture flair.

Just outside Kenmore Square, Boston University’s latest campus addition zigs and zags skyward, like a boozy Jenga game in progress. In downtown Boston near Faneuil Hall, the façade of an elliptical tower peels away at the base, as if a theater curtain is being pulled back. And a new Harvard University science building is clad in a silvery steel lattice that evokes an M.C. Escher print.

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