The Spangler Center is a building on the
Boston
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campus of
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...
.
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...
is in
Allston, Massachusetts
Allston is an officially recognized neighborhood within the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was named after the American painter and poet Washington Allston. It comprises the land covered by the zip code 02134. For the most part ...
neighborhood of
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., across the street from the
, opening in 2021.
Overview
The building was named in honor of billionaire alumnus
Clemmie Spangler
Clemmie Dixon Spangler Jr. (April 5, 1932 – July 22, 2018) was an American billionaire businessman, and the owner of National Gypsum. On the ''Forbes'' 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion ...
, who made a donation to towards the construction.
It cost $32 million in total.
Its construction was completed in 2001.
According to the HBS website, the building "is considered the main student center for MBAs."
It includes "29 project rooms", "a 350-seat auditorium", "IT Support Services, a branch of The Coop bookstore, a business center, a post office retail outlet, Student Association offices, a course material distribution center, and an ATM" as well as the Meredith Room, named for Spangler's wife, and the Williams Room, named for HBS professor
Charles M. Williams.
Architectural design
The building was designed in the
Georgian Revival architectural style by
Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP (RAMSA), is an architecture firm based in New York City. First established by Robert A. M. Stern (as Stern Hagmann Architects) in 1969, it is now organized as a limited liability partnership with 16 general partner ...
.
In ''Architect Magazine'',
Witold Rybczynski
Witold Rybczynski (born 1 March 1943) is a Canadian American architect, professor and writer. He is currently the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor Emeritus of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania.
Early life
Rybczynski was born in Ed ...
wrote that it "resembles a large country house."
In ''The Boston Globe'', critic Robert Campbell called it "the best piece of traditional architecture to be built in Greater Boston since the early decades of the twentieth century."
See also
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Baker Library/Bloomberg Center
The Baker Library/Bloomberg Center is a building complex at Harvard Business School on the campus of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. It includes the Baker Library, built in 1927, and the Bloomberg Center, completed in 2005.
Overview
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Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center
The Chao Center is a building on the campus of Harvard Business School which is one of 14 schools within Harvard University. in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. and across the street from the Harvard School of Engineering op ...
References
School buildings completed in 2001
Harvard Business School
Harvard University buildings
Georgian Revival architecture in Massachusetts
Robert A. M. Stern buildings
2001 establishments in Massachusetts
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