Buildings
The Media Lab has expanded with a new building designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki. The 163,000-square-foot (15,100 m2), six-story building features an open, atelier-style, adaptable architecture specifically designed to provide the flexibility to respond to emerging research priorities. High levels of transparency throughout the building's interior will make ongoing research visible, encouraging connections and collaboration among researchers.
Work began on the building in mid-2007 and occupancy took place in 2009. Construction had been delayed for several years by funding issues related to the dot-com bubble.
Apart from the Media Lab, the building also hosts the List Visual Arts Center, the School of Architecture and Planning's Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT), and MIT's Program in Comparative Media Studies.
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