The upscale stretch of the Charles River between Harvard University and die Massachusetts Institute of Technology could he renamed Biotech Brook, First, there is Genzyme's new 150 million dollar facility, pointing skyward like a brick version of Chartres Cathedral. Downstream, the red-brick behemoth of Millennium Pharmaceuticals looms arrogantly over the river in a former Ford Motor Co. factory. But, for years, the next building, across the railroad tracks and down the river, was the ne'er-do-well of the neighborhod,, a drab tire ware-house-turned-office-building with little ar chitectural-or scjenttfic-presence. Then, last year, die building was renovated in a snazzy postmodern style, complete with.penthouse and checkerboard-brick ornamentation.
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