University of Toronto Bissell Building (Photo credit: Ken Jones, University of Toronto)
Alison Brooks Architects has announced that the University of Toronto has selected their practice, in collaboration with Executive Architects Adamson Associates, to revitalize the Claude T. Bissell Building for the Faculty of Information, a world-leading center of excellence for research and education in information studies.
The building, which was completed in 1973, is 7,000 square metres in size and one of three heritage buildings that form the John P. Robarts Research Library complex.
This landmark project will support the Faculty?s growth and overall mission to leverage technology for human good as well as to make knowledge, information platforms, and systems equitable and accessible to all. The commission includes a comprehensive reimagining of the Bissell Building?s social, teaching, and research spaces to modernize the identity of the Faculty of Information and create a new front door to the St. George Campus.
Research and design labs, classrooms, and makerspaces?all of which will be newly accessible, inclusive spaces?will support the Faculty?s combined model of experiential, experimental, and empirical learning.
Aerial view of St. George campus looking South. (Photo credit: Ken Jones, University of Toronto)
?This revitalisation project represents a historic opportunity to work with a brilliant client to transform one of the University?s most memorable Brutalist icons into a place...