Simmons Hall

Simmons Hall

Also known as The Sponge

Year

2002

Architect

Steven Holl

Type

building

Steven Holl's 2002 dormitory for MIT is nicknamed the Sponge, and the metaphor is structural rather than poetic. The 350-bed slab is pierced by 5,538 small square windows on a tight grid, with larger irregular voids carved through the build …

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