Burnside Hall (french: Pavillon Burnside) is a
McGill University building located at 805
Sherbrooke Street West, on the university's downtown campus in
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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. It is named after
Burnside Place, the Montreal estate of
James McGill, the university's founder.
Burnside Hall on the McGill Math Department site
/ref> Built in 1970 by Marshall, Merrett, and Associates to accommodate the Faculty of Science
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, the thirteen-storey building is constructed in Brutalist
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style and stands just northeast of the Roddick Gates
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, in the centre of McGill's campus.
Layout
Burnside is located south of the Macdonald-Stewart Library (formerly the Macdonald Physics Building), southeast of the Pulp and Paper Research Institute and northeast of the Otto Maass Chemistry Building. Burnside connects to these buildings through an underground tunnel system, and can also be accessed from the outside directly from McGill's Lower Field through the building's main entrance.
The basement contains the largest classrooms, under the building's concrete terrace.
Design
Burnside Hall was completed in 1970 in Brutalist
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styleprecast concrete
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slabs with fixed, glazed windows throughout. Its concrete shell was intended to blend well with the colour and texture of other buildings on campus, namely the Leacock Building and McLennan Library
The McLennan Library Building of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada is situated at 3459, rue McTavish (3459, McTavish Street) on the northeast corner of rue Sherbrooke ( Sherbrooke Street) and rue McTavish (McTavish Street). The buildin ...
.
See also
* McGill University buildings
* McCall MacBain Arts Building
* Macdonald-Harrington Building
*McGill School of Architecture
The McGill School of Architecture (officially the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture since 2017) is one of eight academic units constituting the Faculty of Engineering at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1896 by ...
References
External links
Burnside Hall in Virtual McGillThe Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences in Burnside HallThe Department of Mathematics and Statistics
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McGill University buildings
Brutalist architecture in Canada
University and college buildings completed in 1970
1970 establishments in Quebec