- A-121
- Stuk
- [ca. 1960]
Elevated view of the Arts Tower through turrets on the top of the Chemistry Building.
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Elevated view of the Arts Tower through turrets on the top of the Chemistry Building.
Looking west at Chemistry annexes; Thorvaldson Building and Arts Tower in background.
Bio/Historical Note: The limitations of the original Chemistry Building became apparent with the massive influx of students at the end of World War II. The rise in enrollment put a strain on the resources of universities across the country. In response the federal government offered military surplus equipment and buildings to educational institutions at bargain prices. The University of Saskatchewan purchased nine surplus huts used at the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan airport at Dafoe, Saskatchewan, for $46,000 and joined them together to form Chemistry Annex One and Two. This “temporary” solution remained in place for two decades. The annexes were reconfigured in 1964-1965. The Thorvaldson Building opened on 6 June 1966. The annexes were removed by spring 1977.
Campus - Scenic - Students Changing Classes
Students walking through campus between classes. Arts building in background; winter scene.
Looking west toward the Geology Building. Flower bed in the Bowl in foreground; Arts Tower at left in background.
Elevated view looking north of campus; Arts Tower at centre.
Eli Bornstein, an Art Department faculty member, work of "Structure" [a relief construction], situated in the Arts Building.
Looking west at campus buildings (l to r): North wing of Murray Memorial (Main) Library, and Arts Tower and classroom wing at right. Students walking on pathways at right.
Students walking in front of north wing of Murray Memorial (Main) Library; Arts Building in background.
People walking on walkway past north wing of Murray Memorial Library during winter; Arts tower in background.
Winter scene as students walk along the sidewalk with snow piled up along the edges. Arts Building and Murray Memorial Library in background.
Looking southwest across the Bowl at campus buildings (l to r): north wing of Murray Memorial (Main) Library, Arts Tower construction, and Chemistry Building.
Three-dimensional models of a portion of the campus, including the Arts Building and the Main Library.
Three-dimensional models of a portion of the campus, including the Arts Building and the Murray Memorial Library.
Three-dimensional models of a portion of the campus, including the Arts Building and the Murray Memorial Library.
Looking southwest at the Island of Trees, commemorating Robert Reid Moffat, co-architect of the Memorial Union Building, in front of the Arts building. Health Sciences building at left.
Bio/Historical Note: Robert Reid Moffat (1906-1960), partner in the leading postwar firm of Shore & Moffat, established in Toronto in 1945. Born in Edrans, Manitoba, he obtained a degree in Science from the University of Saskatchewan in 1926, and worked for one year as a junior draftsman for David Webster, a leading architect in that city. He moved to Boston and studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1927 to 1931, then returned to Canada where he worked for Darling & Pearson, for Mathers & Haldenby, and for S.B. Coon & Son, all of Toronto. He served as Assistant Superintendent of Buildings at the Univ. of Toronto from 1932 to 1936, then opened an office under his own name. He embraced the new modernist style being promoted in Europe and the United States, and entered the T. Eaton Co. Architectural Competition for House Designs in 1936, receiving an Honourable Mention for his progressive concept. His striking design was a radical departure from the neo-Georgian conservatism evident in some of the other entries. After serving overseas with Canadian Forces during WWII, he formed a new partnership in 1945 with Leonard Shore and during the next fifteen years they were credited with a number of significant modernist landmarks in Toronto (see list of works under Shore & Moffat). The firm also designed the Memorial Student Union Building on the campus of the University of Saskatchewan. Their firm was awarded a Massey Medal for the York Township Municipal Offices (1952), and another Silver Massey Medal for the Imperial Oil Research Centre in Sarnia, Ont. (1961). Moffat died suddenly on 17 December 1960 at Port Credit, Ont.