Campus buildings and architecture

An earth-shaking pile driver on the site of the new athletic center is viewed through a small hole in the fence covering near the Dupont walkway.

Campus construction update

January 10, 2001

Richard P. Simmons, retired head of metals manufacturer Allegheny Technologies, familiarly wields a plasma arc cutter to slice through the loops of a two-foot bow and stainless steel ribbon at the "ribbon-cutting" for Simmons Hall. Holding the ribbon at each end are (left) his daughter Amy and her husband Sean Sebastian, and (right) his son Brian and his wife, Julie Simmons.

Simmons Hall celebration includes chair announcement

December 6, 2000

Campus construction update

December 6, 2000

MIT to name innovative residence hall for Pittsburgh-area philanthropists

November 30, 2000

Loni Butera watches her daughter Lara enjoying the slide in the new playground at Westgate.

Rebuilt playground beckons MIT kids

November 22, 2000

The space vacated by Building 20 for the future Stata Center, as seen from atop Building 26, is just one of several construction sites around campus.

Campus construction update

November 15, 2000

Campus construction update

November 8, 2000

Albert L. Zesiger (SB 1951) and Barrie R. Zesiger, an MIT Corporation member and co-founder of Zesiger Capital Group, expressed delight at last week's groundbreaking ceremony that their pledge of $20 million would help build the Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center.

Sports center breaks ground; to be named after Zesigers

November 1, 2000

Campus construction update

November 1, 2000

Two hundred tons of steel and cement, twice the weight to be carried by the columns of the Sports and Fitness Center, were used in this load test of the first footing for the new center, which will be on the filled land of the MIT campus. Engineers found sand 20 feet down and hollowed out a bulb for the pressure-injected footing for the column of cement to stand on.

MIT Sports and Fitness Center groundbreaking planned for Friday

October 25, 2000

Work began recently on the Vassar Street site of the new undergraduate dormitory, Simmons Hall. Portions of the West Parking Lot have been closed off and the concrete torn to rubble.

Undergraduate dorm to be named Simmons Hall, after donors

October 25, 2000

Vassar Street focus of noise and vibration next 4 months

October 25, 2000

MIT offers 24-room Georgian mansion on Coolidge Estate for $6.5M

October 19, 2000

Part of Topsfield estate up for sale

October 18, 2000

Campus construction update

October 18, 2000

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