Skip to main content
Access to material may be restricted.
Northwest Building
Access to material may be restricted.
Access to material may be restricted.

Northwest Building

Address52, Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, 02138
Site Number04560
Alternate Names Northwest Labs
Building Root Number 04560
Architect (Original)
Land Acquired 1919
Constructed 2008
Building Acquired 2008
StatusActive
Site Name HistoryThe site is named after its relative location on the Cambridge campus.Historical NotesThe Northwest Building was designed by the San Francisco office of Skidmore Owings and Merrill and opened in 2008. The building houses laboratories, classrooms, and offices for researchers in neuroscience, systems biology, and genomics.
Additional Information
Ralph L. Candell Memorial Bridge
Jeremy R. Knowles Ugrad Teaching Laboratory
Carl Saltveit Seminar Room
Class of 1968 Museum Quad Lounge
Custer, Lee Ann W. “Science Building Goes North By Northwest.” Harvard Crimson, 3 Oct. 2008, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2008/10/3/science-building-goes-north-by-northwest/.
“Labs, Size Large.” Harvard Magazine, Nov-Dec. 2008, https://harvardmagazine.com/2008/11/labs-size-large.html.
Sherman, Natalie I. “New Science Lab Approved.” The Harvard Crimson, 16 Feb. 2005, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/2/16/new-science-lab-approved-harvard-got/.
“North Precinct Plans.” Harvard Magazine, Apr. 2003, https://harvardmagazine.com/2003/03/north-precinct-plans-html.
Bierig, Aleksandr. “Harvard NW Science Building.” Architectural Record, vol. 197, no. 11, 2009, pp. 108–13, usmodernist.org/AR/AR-2009-11.pdf.
Related Projects