A world-class facility, it modernizes MIT’s capacity and deepens the collaboration between disciplines, nurturing game-changing ingenuity and advancing the frontiers of innovation without boundaries.

MIT.nano honored by AIA with Merit Award at the 2019 Education Facility Design Awards
MIT researchers are exploring how nanotechnology can impact urgent challenges in health, energy, computing, and more. MIT.nano combines the Institute’s nanotechnology, materials, and engineering systems under a single roof. MIT.nano consolidates complex research and learning activities from across the institute, organizes them to maximize collaboration, creates new indoor and outdoor social space, and weaves into the fabric of MIT physically and academically.
About the Award
American Institute of Architects announced nine projects honored in this year’s Education Facility Design Awards, including four Awards of Excellence and five Awards of Merit. Eligible projects represent various learning institutions from the early childhood level through higher education, as well as specialized training centers and non-traditional learning facilities including community centers, interpretive centers, libraries, museums, and nature centers.
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