I found out today that WGBH is plan­ning to leave its West­ern Ave. stu­dios this year. They have long been cramped, but Har­vard, which is plan­ning a crazy expan­sion into All­ston, is basi­cally pulling the rug out from under them.

This is bad news for me because I (and prob­a­bly only I) think that their main build­ing is one of the mas­ter­pieces of the con­crete medium. Peo­ple say it’s “too 1960′s” but that is when it was built. The illu­mi­nated WGBH logo on the sky­walk is also won­der­ful. The WGBH logo con­jures up old mem­o­ries of PBS in the 1980′s. I am not the only per­son to admire the “Scan­i­mate look.”

I know I bring this up all the time, but I want to point out that prior to build­ing its West­ern Ave. stu­dios, WGBH was head­quar­tered at 84 Mass Ave. in Cam­bridge. Dur­ing its stay, it was rumored that the call­sign stood for “God Bless Har­vard.” You might rec­og­nize the ter­ri­fy­ing struc­ture which now occu­pies that pres­ti­gious address.