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Print For more than a year, I’ve kept a folder on my desk that was stuffed full of scribbled notes for the story I was working on when the pandemic hit. Every journalist, it seems, has a version of this folder ideas rendered moot by the arrival of our global calamity. The story, about the architecture of libraries, was also a story about how women design for women. The library in question was one I knew intimately: Neilson Library, the central library at Smith College, the women’s college in Northampton, Mass., where I studied as an undergraduate. My focus was a $120-million renovation of that space designed by Maya Lin Studio, in collaboration with Boston-based firm Shepley Bulfinch, which had devised Neilson’s master plan. ....
My approach to this piece is to create something that is uplifting, that has a sense of wonder and beauty, Lin said. I want to make you aware of your surroundings in the Pavilion, in this beacon of scientific advancement, connecting you to the physical and natural world around you while symbolizing the very essence of life DNA. The steel tree structure will be suspended from the ceiling of the building s Connector Level, a series of bridges linking HUP East, HUP West and the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine. It will reach down to the ground floor of the Pavilion. ....