Over the course of the last decade, brainiac university Massachusetts Institute of Technology has spent $1.4 billion to revitalize the campus with a crop of 10 new buildings by starchitects such as Frank Gehry and Steven Holl. MIT wouldn't be the overachievers we know and love without planning for the next decade, though—cut to a 410,000-square-foot building on Main Street that just won city approval. [NYT]
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