Front entrance Arts Tower and Place Riel Theatre
- JGD/MG01/XVII/Slide330
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- November 1961
Part of John G. Diefenbaker fonds
Arts Tower at seven stories on the University of Saskatchewan campus.
Front entrance Arts Tower and Place Riel Theatre
Part of John G. Diefenbaker fonds
Arts Tower at seven stories on the University of Saskatchewan campus.
Front entrance Arts Tower and Place Riel Theatre
Part of John G. Diefenbaker fonds
Theatre and side of Arts tower.
Dog with stick outside of arts building
Part of Educational Media Access and Production (EMAP) fonds
Dog with stick on Campus in front of Arts building
Dog with stick outside of arts building
Part of Educational Media Access and Production (EMAP) fonds
Dog with stick on Campus in front of Arts building
College of Arts and Science Building in Winter
Looking north at Arts Tower in winter. On back of image: "With its eleven story office and classroom tower the Arts Building has become a central campus landmark.".
College of Arts and Science Building at Night
Arts Building lighted at night in winter.
College of Arts and Science Building - Tower - Construction
Crane hoisting metal girders to the top of the Arts Tower at left; classroom wing at right. Snow-fencing standing and broken down in foreground.
Bio/Historical Note: The Arts Building was constructed in four major stages from 1958 to 1967 at a cost of $758,491. The first stage of construction began in September 1958 with the raising of the classroom wing. The classroom wing was constructed by W.C. Wells Construction, and was designed by Shore and Moffat. It was officially opened on 28 September 1959. The second phase of construction was completed in 1960. It involved the building of the first seven floors of the Arts Tower, the Arts Theatre, and a link joining the Tower to the classroom wing. The Arts Tower project was contracted to Bird Construction while design of the building was again carried out by Shore and Moffat. The Arts Tower was officially opened on 16 January 1961.The addition to the Arts Tower was constructed from 1963-1965 by Bird Construction. While the initial tower completed in 1960 had been designed to accommodate another three floors at a later date, by 1963-1964 improvements in structural building techniques allowed the architectural firm of Shore and Moffat and Partners to add an eleventh floor to the building designs.
College of Arts and Science Building - Interior
View of classroom in the north half of the west wing of the Arts Building. View from back of classroom looking toward blackboards.
College of Arts and Science Building - Interior
View of the ramp at the entrance between the ground and first floors of the Arts Building.
College of Arts and Science Building - Interior
View through hall windows at students studying in the west wing classroom of Arts Building; windows in background.
College of Arts and Science Building - Interior
Students studying in west wing classroom of Arts Building.
College of Arts and Science Building - Interior
View of students studying in west wing classroom of Arts Building; windows in background.
College of Arts and Science Building - Exterior
Looking east at Arts Building; Thorvaldson Building in background.
College of Arts and Science Building - Exterior
Looking west at the Arts Tower and classroom wing.
College of Arts and Science Building - Construction
Elevated view of six floors formed of new Arts Tower; scaffolding, equipment and vehicles in foreground.
Bio/Historical Note: The Arts Building was constructed in four major stages from 1958 to 1967 at a cost of $758,491. The first stage of construction began in September 1958 with the raising of the classroom wing. The classroom wing was constructed by W.C. Wells Construction, and was designed by Shore and Moffat. It was officially opened on 28 September 1959. The second phase of construction was completed in 1960. It involved the building of the first seven floors of the Arts Tower, the Arts Theatre, and a link joining the Tower to the classroom wing. The Arts Tower project was contracted to Bird Construction while design of the building was again carried out by Shore and Moffat. The Arts Tower was officially opened on 16 January 1961.The addition to the Arts Tower was constructed from 1963-1965 by Bird Construction. While the initial tower completed in 1960 had been designed to accommodate another three floors at a later date, by 1963-64 improvements in structural building techniques allowed the architectural firm of Shore and Moffat and Partners to add an eleventh floor to the building designs. The second classroom wing of the Arts Building was completed in 1967. This fourth and final phase of construction was built by W. C. Wells Construction and was again designed by the architectural firm of Shore and Moffat and Partners. The building on opening contained a gross area of finished space amounting to 82,980 square feet. In addition, 3,564 square feet of unfinished space was provided in the basement. Plans to adjoin the Addition to the planned Law-Commerce Complex were also included in the design. The building was considerably larger upon completion than initially planned, and included laboratory space as well as classrooms. On opening, the second classroom wing contained one 350-seat theatre, one 150-seat theatre, six 95 seat classrooms, six 45 seat classrooms and one 20 seat classroom as well as three departmental seminar rooms. In addition to these, four laboratory units were added to the building for Psychology, Geography, Languages and the Computation Centre. The second classroom wing was faced in tyndall limestone while the interior main corridors of the building were lined with painted concrete block. In 1974 a pedestrian connection was built to the Arts Building for $394,342. It was designed by BLM Architects, and was contracted to Poole Construction.