Renovations have begun on Renzo Piano's "glazed roof," which will unify Harvard's three art museums under one overhead addition. The architect will preserve each building's architectural character—one is modeled after a 16th-century Italian villa—while adding a modern twist, instead of making like Zaha Hadid and affixing a metal snake-like thing to a distinctly old-looking structure. [Design Boom; previously]
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