Baker Library was designed by McKim, Mead & White and completed in 1927 as the centerpiece of the Harvard Business School campus. Our renovation and addition reconceives the building as a 160,000-gross-square-foot center for research and group study, with greatly expanded meeting facilities, faculty offices and their support services, and archival storage for the Library's one of a kind collection of historical business materials. Central to the reorganization is a second front entrance at what was originally the back of the building to address the reorientation of the campus to the south, making the building an easily accessible crossroads of the HBS campus.

Our design provides for pedestrian movement through the building from north to south through the original portico and lobby, and secondary circulation from west to east, all on the first floor. The exterior facades and important interior rooms of the original building are restored and the original self supporting stacks replaced with faculty offices, seminar rooms, and lounges. A skylit atrium brings natural light deep into the building and provides an informal meeting place for students and faculty.

The Baker Library | Bloomberg Center is our second project at the Harvard Business School, following on the completion of the Spangler Campus Center in early 2001.