The UBC Applied Sciences Digital Design Studio project is currently under construction. It will be situated in the service yard of the existing Chemical and Biological Engineering (CHBE) Building. This rendering shows a view of the North Elevation in the Service Yard. https://twitter.com/shapearch_/statu...07661419417715
Height limits in the other proposed UEL developments
Wesbrook Place: up to 39 storeys (117 metres)
Future Stadium Neighbourhood: up to 28 storeys (84 metres)
Future Acadia Neighbourhood: up to 35 storeys (105 metres)
The project will feature five new student residence buildings on the Lower Mall Precinct of UBC’s Vancouver campus, currently the site of St. John’s College (click here for location). One of the buildings will be an eight-storey hybrid mass timber and wood frame structure. The complex will include 1,508 student housing beds (1,333 new and 175 replacement) with a focus on graduate students, as well as 37 new childcare spaces, a 400-seat dining hall, common amenity space, and academic and administrative office space.
They only interested to attract foreign students to make as much money as possible
30% of masters students and 44% of PhDs are international. UBC’s bread and butter is research, not tuition. Attracting the best talent to further that and grow their reputation would be primary motivators, not fees.
In terms of timeline, the Province says construction is expected to start in Fall 2026, and the residences will begin opening, in phases, in Fall 2028 before completing in Fall 2029. The project is targeting Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification and one of the five buildings will be built using mass timber construction.
Campus Vision 2050 is an ambitious, long-range plan for how UBC's Vancouver campus will change and grow to support the needs of the university, its students, residents, staff, and Musqueam.
Dark blue are new academic buildings. T are rapid transit stations.
Sauder Expansion
The proposed expansion of the Sauder School of Business will meet the growing needs of the business school. The proposal is for an 11 storey building with approximately 13,500 sq.m. of space which will include an Indigenous centre, and spaces for classrooms, offices, amenities, and collaborative learning. The project also provides a significant amount of new public outdoor space along West Mall, including a plaza space that will provide access to the main building entrance and a café.
Considerable planning has gone into the decision to remove the two heritage buildings on the site, the decommissioned Power House and Old Fire Hall. Key factors included costs, functionality, and ecological and heritage impacts of retention versus replacement. The Power House will be demolished due to contamination and seismic issues and work is still underway to determine whether the Fire Hall will be demolished or relocated.
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Construction is anticipated to begin in the fall of 2024
That is a remarkably non-descript entrance for the UBC Station.
I would have expected some greenspace immediately around it (i.e. buffer/surge space)
(Compare to York University's station)
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