The Goel Quantum Science and Engineering Building at 60 Oxford Street brings together scientists and engineers across sectors—higher education, corporate and government—to leverage quantum effects like superposition and entanglement, profoundly transforming how information is acquired, stored, transmitted and processed. As one of the first programs of its kind, this cutting-edge facility offers an integrated curriculum—at the intersection of physics, chemistry and engineering—designed expressly to speed proficiency in an ever-shifting intellectual landscape.
Harvard University
Goel Quantum Science and Engineering Building
Project Statistics
LOCATION
Cambridge, MA / United States
COMPLETED
2024
TOTAL SQUARE FOOTAGE
94,000 GSF
PROGRAM COMPONENTS
High Performance Optics Labs, High-Speed Computing, Networking, Secure Communication, Ultraprecise Sensing
IN THE NEWS
Team
Charles S. Klee, AIA, IASSC, LEED AP
Principal-in-Charge
Jeffrey H. DeGregorio, AIA, LEED AP
Design Principal
Stephanie Balsam, AIA
Managing Principal
Shreeya Shakya, AIA
Architect
Yoko Furuya
Designer
Kofi Akakpo
Designer
Giving an outdated building new life
We believe in the concept of “breathing new life” into aging buildings and recognize the potential in unusual aspects and using that as an opportunity to create something new and unique. 60 Oxford Street was purpose-built in the early 2000s to serve as a computer networking hub with a small component of wet lab research for engineering. What was once a closed-off, secure asset for information technology is now a vibrant, open and inviting part of Harvard’s campus.
Quantum Ecosystem
The Goel Building provides a center for a new “quantum ecosystem” where quantum scientists explore the basic science and engineering underpinning the next generation of materials and devices for high-speed computing, networking, secure communication and ultraprecise sensing.
The Goel Building includes over 20 high performance optics labs, a large teaching lab, a seminar room, offices and group meeting spaces. The project includes a number of infrastructure upgrades in order to meet high performance criteria for quantum-scale research—structural reinforcing to minimize vibration and increased environmental controls for individual labs.
Photography (c) Warren Jagger Photography
