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UW - Health Sciences Building | 4 fl | U/C - Markster - 12-11-2014

University of Waterloo
Health Sciences Building

4 storeys

http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/university-of-waterloo-to-break-ground-on-new-health-sciences-building-1.2867655

Quote:The university said the four-storey facility will include cutting-edge kinesiology laboratories and a lecture theatre with 350 seats. The building will also house the school of anatomy. 


RE: University of Waterloo - New Health Sciences Building - jgsz - 12-11-2014

The new building is supposed to be built where parking lot M is located. Lot M is between the University Club and the Lyle S. Hallman Institute for Health Promotion.

That's a good location but I was hoping they would build it at the Kitchener Health Sciences Campus and School of Pharmacy. Besides the School of Pharmacy, that campus has McMaster University's DeGroote School of Medicine and the School of Optometry's satellite teaching and research clinic. If they would have built in Kitchener the only thing missing would have been a teaching hospital.

RE: University of Waterloo - New Health Sciences Building - MacBerry - 12-11-2014

(12-11-2014, 03:47 PM)jgsz Wrote: The new building is supposed to be built where parking lot M is located.  Lot M is between the University Club and the Lyle S. Hallman Institute for Health Promotion.  

That's a good location but I was hoping they would build it at the Kitchener Health Sciences Campus and School of Pharmacy.  Besides the School of Pharmacy, that campus has McMaster University's DeGroote School of Medicine and the School of Optometry's satellite teaching and research clinic.  If they would have built in Kitchener the only thing missing would have been a teaching hospital.

This building is a COSTCO with bricks and several floors.

Why can't the University of Waterloo be as creative with it's architectural design as it is being a world leading higher education university? 

The drawing looks like they are building a provincial jail or that the University saved money by copying the exterior architecture from a cold-war Moscow building. Apparently I really dislike this "sameness model" they subscribe to.


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RE: University of Waterloo - New Health Sciences Building - jamincan - 12-12-2014

While that is admittedly dull, UW has recently built a number of architecturally unique buildings. I'm not sure if sameness is a legitimate criticism to direct at them.

RE: University of Waterloo - New Health Sciences Building - MacBerry - 12-12-2014

(12-12-2014, 10:22 AM)jamincan Wrote: While that is admittedly dull, UW has recently built a number of architecturally unique buildings. I'm not sure if sameness is a legitimate criticism to direct at them.


 I will accept "dullness" as a replacement 

RE: University of Waterloo - New Health Sciences Building - jamincan - 12-13-2014

(12-12-2014, 10:55 PM)MacBerry Wrote:
(12-12-2014, 10:22 AM)jamincan Wrote: While that is admittedly dull, UW has recently built a number of architecturally unique buildings. I'm not sure if sameness is a legitimate criticism to direct at them.


 I will accept "dullness" as a replacement 

You think the Quantum Nano Centre is boring and dull? E5? EV3? There are scores of buildings on the campus that certainly are, but those three are very recent construction that are quite interesting on the contrary.

RE: University of Waterloo - New Health Sciences Building - ookpik - 12-13-2014

(12-13-2014, 09:35 AM)jamincan Wrote: You think the Quantum Nano Centre is boring and dull? E5? EV3? There are scores of buildings on the campus that certainly are, but those three are very recent construction that are quite interesting on the contrary.

Also from earlier eras are the Dana Porter library, Math & Computing building, Davis Centre, et al.

RE: University of Waterloo - New Health Sciences Building - MaxT63 - 12-14-2014

Construction crews are already on site. The east half of Lot M is currently fenced off. Was this project already announced previously?

   
   
   

RE: University of Waterloo - New Health Sciences Building - MacBerry - 12-15-2014

(12-13-2014, 10:24 AM)ookpik Wrote:
(12-13-2014, 09:35 AM)jamincan Wrote: You think the Quantum Nano Centre is boring and dull? E5? EV3? There are scores of buildings on the campus that certainly are, but those three are very recent construction that are quite interesting on the contrary.

Also from earlier eras are the Dana Porter library, Math & Computing building, Davis Centre, et al.

Still sad that a world renowned university builds a new building in 2014-2016 that marks the north entrance to the campus with an architecturally designed box with windows. Creative they are not!

RE: University of Waterloo - New Health Sciences Building - ookpik - 12-15-2014

Fair enough.

How are these sorts of architectural decisions made, i.e. by the university administration or by the faculty?

How are the buildings funded, i.e. by the university administration or by the faculty's budget?

I'm asking because I have no idea. Perhaps a faculty that needs to expand but has relatively little money has no choice but to build a big box with windows.

RE: University of Waterloo - New Health Sciences Building - insider - 12-15-2014

Mediocre architecture at UW, as usual. Check out this earlier concept for the same building:

[Image: building-rendering.jpg]

can be found here:

https://uwaterloo.ca/applied-health-sciences/laying-foundation-healthy-future

Another lost opportunity, ugh.

RE: University of Waterloo - New Health Sciences Building - BuildingScout - 12-15-2014

I agree, but I think this has to do with the source of funds. Some donors explicitly request that a good architect firm be engaged as condition of the donation, while other sources demand a barebones functional design (usually government sources).

RE: University of Waterloo - New Health Sciences Building - Spokes - 12-15-2014

The original proposal was MUCH better

RE: University of Waterloo - New Health Sciences Building - nms - 12-17-2014

They typically are better until reality, physics and budgets get in the way.

RE: University of Waterloo - New Health Sciences Building - curiouschair - 12-21-2014

(12-14-2014, 01:48 PM)MaxT63 Wrote: Was this project already announced previously?

I don't know, but at the end of September they seemed to be starting some sort of construction in the parking lot.