As part of its plans to expand student housing on campus, Simon Fraser University (SFU) is planning to demolish Madge Hogarth House, one of the original buildings on the Burnaby Mountain campus masterplanned by Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey.
Madge Hogarth House opened as a women’s residence in 1965, and later became a campus resource space. The university has said that renovating the building to meet current seismic, fire and life safety requirements is unfeasible. The planned demolition would make way for a new residence for 369 students.
The chair of the Arthur Erickson Foundation council, Phyllis Lambert, has written to SFU president Andrew Petter and campus planning and development director Ian Abercrombie, demanding the school halt demolition and assess Madge Hogarth House for heritage value. Erickson/Massey rendering of original Madge Hogarth House. Canadian Centre for Architecture Collection.
Rendering of proposal for site of Madge Hogarth House.
The text of Phyllis Lambert’s letter to Ian Abercrombie follows:
Dear Mr. Abercrombie,
I write to you urgently about the  status of the  Madge Hogarth Building in the  West Precinct of the Erickson/Massey Simon Fraser campus. I have just  been informed that this outstanding work, one of the great original campus buildings of 1965, known then as the Women’s Residence, is slated for demolition.
It would be unthinkable for any of the original buildings of the  great authored North American campuses?...