Canadian University Thread

[MTLskyline]

Concordia University - Sir George Williams Campus
Concordia University, Montreal by Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Flickr

Concordia University by Mr. Kaya, on Flickr

[MolsonExport]

Oh no, the Hell Building! Taught in that place for 5 years.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by MTLskyline

Concordia University - Sir George Williams Campus

Those must be KPMB buildings... they look separated at birth from the Manitoba Hydro Tower!

[flar]

McMaster University photo thread:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=158825

A view of McMaster from Hamilton Mountain, circa 2008 (things have changed since then)
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[HomeInMyShoes]

Does anyone have a new picture of the University of Regina? I can't find anything with the two new residence buildings in it. The University of Regina is creating a second skyline within Regina. With four buildings now in the 12 to 14 story range it is starting to make an impact from quite a few vantage points.

[1overcosc]

Queen's University, Kingston:


(Source: Cutgraphic Aerial Video Services)


(Source Eric Ferguson on flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/ericferguson/3548073612/)


(Source: Kaspi Films)


(Source: Youniversityhub.com)

What I love about Queen's is how dense it is. Its a huge university with 25,000 students yet you can walk from one end of campus to the other in 10 minutes (a few buildings are on the satellite campus 1km to the west, but that accounts for maybe 5% or less of Queens' total square footage). And yet it still has a lot of green space and treed areas, and the buildings aren't overly tall. Queen's achieves this by putting almost all surface parking on the satellite campus, and by having each building have a huge basement. Almost all non-residential buildings extend at least three floors below grade. At Douglas Library for example, it's a 7 floor building but 4th floor is ground level.

[SignalHillHiker]

Ontario and the Maritimes have such beautiful universities.

Ye all do, really, compared to us.

Gawd, I wish MUN looked better.

[ciudad_del_norte]

Originally Posted by isaidso

I do love that building. I visited it last summer.

Dalhousie University (All photos by me)

I have to say Dal was actually a bit dissapointing building-wise. Not that it doesn't have some cool ones, but my western mind expected it to be much more dominated by old university buildings than it actually is. Overall it didn't feel any more historic than the U of A campus IMO.

[Everyday]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Oh no, the Hell Building! Taught in that place for 5 years.

You probably got a good leg workout at least, what with the escalators working a good 10-15 days out of the year.

[MolsonExport]

^things have improved I guess. It was more like 5 days out of 500.

[MonkeyRonin]

UofT (and OCAD)


https://www.flickr.com/photos/theary101/8124001148/


Yorkville Aerial by MafaldaBoy, on Flickr


Field by @416Shots, on Flickr



Ryerson


I'm Back by Acid_Punk, on Flickr


Digital Film by Neil Ta | I am Bidong, on Flickr



York (bleh)


Toronto: York University Aerial by The City of Toronto, on Flickr

[Beedok]

A slightly old Carleton picture

http://www.math.cmu.edu/~shaikhet/

[SignalHillHiker]

I almost went to Carleton.

[Ashok]

Originally Posted by MTLskyline

Concordia University - Sir George Williams Campus
Concordia University, Montreal by Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Flickr

Concordia University by Mr. Kaya, on Flickr

+ Concordia's Layola Campus

[Chadillaccc]

Originally Posted by Echoes

The University of Saskatchewan "skyline":

Doesn't the U of S have the country's largest Hadron Particle Collider?

[UrbanClimate]

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

Does anyone have a new picture of the University of Regina? I can't find anything with the two new residence buildings in it. The University of Regina is creating a second skyline within Regina. With four buildings now in the 12 to 14 story range it is starting to make an impact from quite a few vantage points.

True, the University of Regina has a skyline of its own, quite separate from the downtown skyline.

This photo is several years old. Two new towers are not shown (top-right).


This photo taken from a tower crane on campus.


A couple years ago, showing east half of campus.

[UrbanClimate]

Source: personal photo


Source: http://www.curac.ca/?page_id=1696


Source: http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/...en/essay3.html

[Drybrain]

Originally Posted by ciudad_del_norte

I have to say Dal was actually a bit dissapointing building-wise. Not that it doesn't have some cool ones, but my western mind expected it to be much more dominated by old university buildings than it actually is. Overall it didn't feel any more historic than the U of A campus IMO.

I think that's less a reflection on Dal's lack of history and more that U of A is really well built for a western university: Athabasca Hall, Rutherford Library, Rutherford House, the Old Arts Building, St. Stephen's College, St. Joseph's College, and Corbett Hall.

Still, Dal definitely feels more "old" than U of A (which I know pretty well, having lived a few blocks away for a couple of years). It's got two historic quads including the one at King's and the one in front of the Henry Hicks building and its complementary stone buildings. Then there's the Forrest building (and two other great stone buildings on that same block, visible from University Avenue, including the Clinical Research Centre). Shirreff Hall is a pretty authoritative-looking, Georgian-style residence house.

Then, off the Studley campus, there's the architecture faculty and some of the other properties eastward on Spring Garden.

Plus a bunch of smaller Victorian houses, both brick and wooden, on and off-campus housing residences and offices.

[ciudad_del_norte]

Originally Posted by Drybrain

I think that's less a reflection on Dal's lack of history and more that U of A is really well built for a western university: Athabasca Hall, Rutherford Library, Rutherford House, the Old Arts Building, St. Stephen's College, St. Joseph's College, and Corbett Hall.

Still, Dal definitely feels more "old" than U of A (which I know pretty well, having lived a few blocks away for a couple of years). It's got two historic quads including the one at King's and the one in front of the Henry Hicks building and its complementary stone buildings. Then there's the Forrest building (and two other great stone buildings on that same block, visible from University Avenue, including the Clinical Research Centre). Shirreff Hall is a pretty authoritative-looking, Georgian-style residence house.

Then, off the Studley campus, there's the architecture faculty and some of the other properties eastward on Spring Garden.

Plus a bunch of smaller Victorian houses, both brick and wooden, on and off-campus housing residences and offices.

It's not that Dal lacks history, but that history is not nearly as in-your-face as I thought it would be. I attended both schools, and Dal definitely has some cool buildings, but they always felt sufficiently interspersed with modern ones, or parking lots that it just didn't have that sort of grand old effect I thought it would have.

[Drybrain]

Originally Posted by ciudad_del_norte

It's not that Dal lacks history, but that history is not nearly as in-your-face as I thought it would be. I attended both schools, and Dal definitely has some cool buildings, but they always felt sufficiently interspersed with modern ones, or parking lots that it just didn't have that sort of grand old effect I thought it would have.

Yeah, I guess I can see that. My previous university experience was U of Calgary, so Dal practically feels like Oxford by comparison. (Architecturally speaking.)