As the longest-running and most authoritative resource for architects, Architectural Record has celebrated architectural excellence for 134 years. This fall, the editors have launched this new annual awards program to recognize the year’s best built and unbuilt projects, as well as leading and emerging voices in the field.
We are pleased to announce The Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard has received a 2025 Architectural Record Award in the Honorable Mention Category!
The Ragon Institute is a unique union of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard at the forefront of infectious disease research, such as HIV-AIDS and COVID-19. Its new 323,000 GSF home is located on a free-standing triangular site along Main Street at the edge of Kendall Square and the MIT Campus. Cantilevered dramatically on 3 corners, the design approach embraced the unusual triangular site as a singular object by floating the mass above a continuous band of landscape on all sides, and seamlessly navigating the gateway site and its varying alignments with the gentle sweep of its mass: its green roof fluidly sloping downward three stories around the block. The elliptical Courtyard Sweep carved into the mass further scales the profile and provides a dynamic silhouette along Main Street; it is an extension of the organically shaped atrium that defines the heart of the institute.
✂️A cut behind the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard— the latest recipient of the 2025 Architecture Record Award
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