Excavation is complete and the crane now operational on the site of the new
Rotman School of Management expansion on St. George St. on the University of Toronto Campus.
The 15,000 square metre (160,000 square feet), $65-million project will more than double the school's space, says Ken McGuffin, Rotman's manager of media relations.
"We're actually bursting at the seams," he says. "The building we're in opened in 1996, when we were taking in 120 students per year. Now we're taking in more than 260 students per year. I'm sharing an office myself with two other people."
The building will house classrooms, offices, an event space and study spaces, and is being built on the site of two older St. George St. buildings, the old
Classics building and the campus radio station
CIUT's offices and studios. The former will be incorporated into the new design (the department having moved to the Lillian Massey Building at the southeast corner of Bloor and Queen's Park). The latter, which McGuffin says lacked both architectural significance and structural integrity, has been demolished.
The new building, designed by
KPMB Architects s to be connected to the existing building immediately to the north of the site and will be completed by Spring, 2012.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Ken McGuffin