Cambridge

The Harvard Art Museums comprise three museums into one single building with a collection ranging in date from antiquity to the present and originating in Europe, North America, North Africa and Asia. And if you feel like exploring Harvard Graduate School of Design, it is just one block away from the Museums and it’s architecture is breathtaking.

Harvard’s visual arts hub, completed in 1963, is America’s only building designed by Le Corbusier, a famous French architecture. It is a seamless blend of concrete shell and slim columns, cast in concrete masonry and dominated by a curved ramp. The centre houses the Department of Visual Arts studies of Harvard and two public galleries.

One of two campus building designed by the Finnish-American Eero Saarinen, this is the home of the MIT Philharmonic. The 1955 structure comprises a thin concrete shell capped by a copper dome and has no internal support columns. ‘Clouds’ suspended from the ceiling were designed to perfect acoustics.

With its irregular façade and pop-out windows, the 2004 Ray and Maria Stata Centre unashamedly displays its Frank Gehry pedigree. Designed by the architect as a home for numerous MIT Science laboratories.. It’s architecture flows freely from red brick to mirrored steel, brushed aluminium to corrugated metal.

Completed by MIT alumnus IM Pei in 1985, MIT’s Visual Art’s center is home of a public art collection that includes works by Alexander Calder, Sol LeWitt and Pablo Picasso. Most are housed in Pei’s tile-covered, metal-framed building; often the target of ridicule for its rather sterile aesthetic.

If you feel like craving for amazing cookies, cakes and tarts, with a nice cup of coffee on the side, Tatte is a good option. It has a 2 floors space with open bakery and kitchen on the first floor where you can see their pastry team, bread bakers and chef.

After a long day of touristing, trying out the best waffles outside of Belgium could be an excellent option. Their waffles are made from a dense dough encrusted with imported pearl sugar from Belgium, resulting in a rich, sweet and indulgent waffle. It is a must if you are into waffles and chocolate.