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As a nor’easter bore down on Boston in early December, dropping more than a foot of snow and leaving the campus all but empty, a convoy of trucks began to arrive at 665 Comm Ave for one of the largest concrete pours in Boston history. The goal of the meticulously choreographed project was to form the slab that will anchor the eventual 305-foot-tall, 345,000-square-foot tower that will be BU’s Center for Computing & Data Sciences.
BU’s eye-popping Center for Computing & Data Sciences. Image courtesy of KPMB Architects
The state-of-the-art building broke ground in 2020 and is expected to be completed by early 2023, Resembling a stack of books, the structure is an architectural feat, already winning an architecture award before its walls have even gone up. Designed to be über-eco-friendly, it’s heated and cooled by 31 geothermal wells, and its interior spaces have been designed to foster collaboration. When finished, the imposing structure will be