- A-625
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- 1958
View from Administration Building looking southwest across the Bowl. University buildings in background (l to r): Murray Memorial (Main) Library, Chemistry Building, and Biology Building. Landscaping and road in foreground.
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View from Administration Building looking southwest across the Bowl. University buildings in background (l to r): Murray Memorial (Main) Library, Chemistry Building, and Biology Building. Landscaping and road in foreground.
View looking northwest of the Biology Building, with Physics annexes at far right. Several men walking on pathway in foreground.
Geology Building - Construction
Foundation being laid for the Geology Building. Excavation equipment in foreground, with crane in background. Buildings in background from l to r: Arts Tower, Chemistry (Thorvaldson) Building and Physics Building at far right.
Bio/Historical Note: The construction of the Geology Building marked a return to the early style of campus architecture. The Department of Geology had been formed in 1927 and for the next six decades was based in the east wing of the Engineering Building. A growing faculty and student population had forced the department to cobble together makeshift accommodation in trailers and remote campus buildings. Designed by the architectural firm Black, McMillan and Larson of Regina, the building was given a neo-Collegiate Gothic exterior to blend harmoniously with the other buildings in the central campus. The two-and-a-half-storey building was erected just south or the Bowl side of the W.P. Thompson Biology Building, providing 8,543 square metres for office, laboratory, library, classroom, and storage space for rock and fossil samples. The exterior was clad with greystone and dressed with tyndal limestone. The dominant feature of the interior was a two-story atrium that featured the mosaics for the former exterior walls of the Thompson Building, a life-size skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex and geological and biological displays. The $18.5 million Geology Building was completed in 1988 and fused the space between Physics and Biology and linked, through a walkway, with Chemistry, creating an integrated science complex on campus.
Biology Building - Construction
Winter view looking south at final stages of construction of the Biology Building.
Bio/Historical Note: The W.P. Thompson Biology Building is named after Walter Palmer Thompson, the University of Saskatchewan's third president and founder of the Biology Department (1913). Designed by Izumi, Arnott and Sugiyama, it was constructed between 1957 and 1959 and officially opened in 1960. Set back from the Bowl, the flat-roofed cube style building was located between the Collegiate Gothic architecture of the Chemistry and Physics Buildings. It originally consisted of a teaching wing and a research wing but a header and greenhouse complex was added in 1962. Unlike many other Canadian universities the Department of Biology remained a single unit, balancing diverse sub-disciplines rather than separating into several distinct departments. Prior to the building's opening in 1960, work in biological sciences was scattered among four campus locations. Perhaps the most striking of the building’s features is the mural of mosaic tiles that adorns the south and west exterior walls. The mural depicts the four main stages of cellular mitosis. The artist, Roy Kiyooka, chose chromosome patterns as a testament to Dr. Thompson's important discoveries regarding the genetics of wheat rust. In 1986, the Geology Building was completed on the south side of Biology, resulting in the transformation of the south façade from an exterior into an interior wall, part of a new atrium.
Biology Building - Official Opening
Elevated view of students dressed in Roman togas and outfits interrupting the ceremonies as dignitaries are seated behind and laughing.
Biology Building - Official Opening
Allan E. Blakeney, Saskatchewan Minister of Education, speaks during official opening.
Biology Building - Official Opening
Elevated view of the crowd in the lecture theatre.
Campus - Scenic - Physics Building
View looking northwest of Physics Building at left and Biology Building at right. Cars parked on road; landscaping and trees in foreground.
View looking northwest of Biology Building. Students walking on walkway and sitting on grass; tree in foreground.
View of exterior of Biology Building.
Elevated view of the exterior pf the Biology Building.
Looking southwest through trees at the Biology Building; students walk along paths.
Elevated view looking south at the Biology Building; likely taken from the roof of Murray (Main) Library. Physics Building visible in background.
View of exterior of the Biology Building; winter scene.
View from northwest across the Bowl with buildings (l to r): Thorvaldson, Biology, Physics and Administration. Students walking on grass in foreground.