Nearly 40 images of highlights from the three-year project
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Nearly 40 images of highlights from the three-year project
Three years after a groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of construction of the Center for Computing & Data Sciences, Boston University celebrates the opening of the iconic building on December 8.
UB today photographers Janice Checchio, Jackie Ricciardi and Cydney Scott chronicled the build from start to finish. They estimate they took a combined total of over 10,000 photos, taken at all hours, in all seasons, in all weathers.
To celebrate the $305 million building’s completion, they’ve put together a collection of photos that chart its rise from the inauguration of those first digs to the 305-foot-tall cantilever tower that stands now rises above BU’s central campus.
Swipe the bars left and right to see two different perspectives of how the Center for Computing & Data Sciences looks under construction, now, and what it will look like when finished in late 2022. Photos by Jackie Ricciardi
Revolutionary BU Center for Computing & Data Sciences: Luigi LaRocca of KPMB Architects (left to right), Kenneth Feld (Questrom’70), then BU Board Chairman, Jean Morrison, BU Provost, Martin Walsh, then Boston Mayor Robert A. Brown, UB President, Marianne McKenna of KPMB Architects, and John Fish of Suffolk Construction at the groundbreaking ceremony for the state-of-the-art building on Commonwealth Avenue on December 5, 2019. Left photo by Cydney Scott. Azer Bestavros, Associate Provost for Computing and Data Science, on the CDS site. Right photo by Jackie Ricciardi
2019–2020
Drilled geothermal wells, summer and winter.
Left photo by Jackie Ricciardi; right photo by Cydney Scott
May 2020Construction begins after a two-month pandemic delay.
Left photo by Cydney Scott; right photo by Janice Checchio
Photo by Janice Checchio
Pictures of Carl Peer
April 2021
The foundations and core construction are complete.
Pictures of Cydney Scott
May–September 2021Steel frame.
Left photo by Cydney Scott; right photo by Janice Checchio
Photo by Janice Checchio
Pictures of Cydney Scott
Azer Bestavros (from left), Jean Morrison and Robert A. Brown as the final beam (right) is laid out during the CDS closing ceremony on September 30, 2021. Photos by Cydney Scott
Photo by Janice Checchio
November 2021The pouring of the concrete floor is finished.
Left photo by Janice Checchio; right photo by Cydney Scott
New England Finishing Systems carpenter Carol Rogers waterproofs the exterior of the fifth floor of CDS, Nov. 17 (left). Pictures of Cydney Scott
Views of CDS from Warren Towers, November 30. Left photo by Cydney Scott; right photo by Jackie Ricciardi
Photos of Jackie Ricciardi
April 2022Curtain wall installation complete.
Left photo by Jackie Ricciardi; right photo by Cydney Scott
Photo by Cydney Scott.
2022Interior construction of the building in progress.
Pictures of Cydney Scott
Pictures of Cydney Scott
October 2022Certificate of Occupation.
Photo by Janice Checchio
Part of the CDS butterfly staircase (left). One of many rooftop terraces, with stunning views of much of Boston, Cambridge and the Charles (right). Photos of Jackie Ricciardi
December 2022Opening ceremony
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