{"id":30123,"date":"2026-09-30T17:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=30123"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:39:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:39:53","slug":"why-does-oneill-the-building-have-different-architecture-than-other-buildings-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/09\/30\/why-does-oneill-the-building-have-different-architecture-than-other-buildings-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does O&#8217;Neill the building have different architecture than other buildings on campus?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AW093026-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AW093026-3.jpg\" alt=\"Why does O'Neill the building have different architecture than other buildings on campus?\" class=\"wp-image-30115\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Why does O&#8217;Neill the building have different architecture than other buildings on campus?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the authors of the History of Boston College it was partly designed that way so as not to take attention away from Gasson, the &#8220;architectural centerpiece of campus.&#8221; (1) But I suspect it&#8217;s also a side-effect of choosing The Architects Collaborative and students of Walter Gropius to design it. The Back Bay Center and the JFK Federal building were also projects of theirs, and you can see the stylistic similarities. (2) 1) <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/grove-tac\">bit.ly\/grove-tac<\/a> 2) <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-oneill-design\">bit.ly\/bc-oneill-design<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the authors of the History of Boston College it was partly designed that way so as not to take attention away from Gasson, the &#8220;architectural centerpiece of campus.&#8221; (1) But I suspect it&#8217;s also a side-effect of choosing The Architects Collaborative and students of Walter Gropius to design it. The Back Bay Center &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/09\/30\/why-does-oneill-the-building-have-different-architecture-than-other-buildings-on-campus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why does O&#8217;Neill the building have different architecture than other buildings on campus?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30139,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30123\/revisions\/30139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}