AWARDS
2001 Preservation Award
Cambridge Historical Commission

2001 Private Project of the Year Award
Construction Management Association of America, N.E. Chapter

University Hall was designed in 1813 by Charles Bulfinch. The large, symmetrical, granite building sits at the very center of the Harvard campus. It is a Harvard icon, and continues to house important administrative and meeting functions, notably the offices of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

In addition to extensive historic restoration, Bruner/Cott's architectural work included designing concealed ramps and lifts for universal access throughout the building, all-new mechanical systems, and significant structural repairs, all of which had to be built within rigorous historic constraints. The great Faculty Room, originally the College Chapel, has returned to the deeper colors of the late nineteenth century, when it took on its present use. Bulfinch's superb proportions and materials have been brought forward. University Hall has been made functionally but invisibly modern at the same time that it has regained much of its original character.