The top floor of the new Media Lab feels quite ethereal. It includes a double-height roof cafe, two expansive gathering rooms, and a serene balcony where one floats nearly weightless above the Charles River and the Boston skyline. When I noted the bravery of the wall-to-wall white carpeting, Joe Pryse of Leers Weinzapfel Associates (the building’s Architect of Record) chuckled and promptly declared a no-red-wine policy on the sixth floor. Photo 6 of 12 in New MIT Media Lab Opens Doors by Tiffany Chu

New MIT Media Lab Opens Doors

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The top floor of the new Media Lab feels quite ethereal. It includes a double-height roof cafe, two expansive gathering rooms, and a serene balcony where one floats nearly weightless above the Charles River and the Boston skyline.

When I noted the bravery of the wall-to-wall white carpeting, Joe Pryse of Leers Weinzapfel Associates (the building’s Architect of Record) chuckled and promptly declared a no-red-wine policy on the sixth floor.