The redesign builds on the college’s history as a place that borrows freely from the architecture of other times and places, mixing and matching and reinventing itself
University College was burning. It was Feb. 14, 1890, and Canada’s first secular university had been preparing for a party. Instead, a spilled lamp set the building ablaze, and it became “a ragged, blackened ruin,” as The Globe reported the next day. Toronto had “suffered the cruellest loss in its history.”
The project altered roughly 25,000 square feet of the designated national historic site, creating fully accessible routes via new ramps and an elevator; restoring one upstairs room to its historic function as a library; and renovating a circular space that was once a chemistry lab, the Croft Chapter House, into a conference room.
“We aimed to do something unexpected and very contemporary,” Mr. Shnier said on a recent tour of the building. “But I wanted to make sure that in 50 years nobody would be able to put a date on it.”Bozikovic: Toronto’s new courthouse reveals the limits of what architecture can do
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