SOM puts Department of Transportation "on display" at Cambridge building

American studio SOM has created a "vertical campus" for the US Department of Transportation in Massachusetts that features aluminium fins on its sides and a landscape installation by designer Maya Lin.
Completed last year, the James A Volpe National Transportation Center brings all of the US Department of Transportation's (DOT) operations under one roof in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
It also serves as an innovation centre for the DOT, which has been operating since the 1970s.
SOM has designed a re