Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering (SCI) is a building owned by Boston University named for Arthur G.B.

[1] SCI contains offices, classrooms, and laboratories primarily used by the Physics, Chemistry, and Biology Departments of the College of Arts and Sciences.

The original unit installed in 1983 was inadequate for the size of the building, particularly in dealing with the moisture of ambient air on hot summer days.

The exposed nature of these pipes recalls the architectural movement of utilitarian structural expressionism akin to Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

[5] Previously, in the place of the building, at the same address, had been a converted parking garage, the basement of which had been a music venue known as the Psychedelic Supermarket.