Macdonald-Harrington Building
Macdonald-Harrington Building | |
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Renaissance Revival | |
Address | 815 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Coordinates | 45°30′19″N 73°34′33″W / 45.5052°N 73.5758°W |
Groundbreaking | 1896 |
Opened | 1898 |
Renovated | 1987 |
Affiliation | McGill School of Architecture |
Technical details | |
Material | Limestone, copper roof |
Floor count | 7 |
Lifts/elevators | 1 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Sir Andrew Taylor |
Other designers | Arcop (1987 renovation) |
45°30′19″N 73°34′33″W / 45.505268°N 73.575804°W
The Macdonald-Harrington Building (formerly the Macdonald Chemistry Building) is a building located at 815
The six-storey building contains all of the architecture studios at McGill ranging from first year undergraduate to Ph.D., as well as offices, lecture halls, a workshop, laser cutting room and light/dark rooms. It is connected to the Frank Dawson Adams (FDA) building from the south, and the Macdonald Engineering building from the north.
History
In 1896,
The building was originally called the Macdonald Chemistry Building but was recently renamed Macdonald-Harrington after Bernard J. Harrington, McGill’s first chemistry professor.[4] The building opened in 1898, and Harrington was the director for nearly a decade after until his death in 1907. His portrait by Robert Harris is located in Room 212 of the building today.[5]
Early on, the two basement levels housed the Metallurgy and Mining labs. Some of these rooms can still be found today on these levels, though many have since been re-purposed as rooms related to the
In 1957, a modern, two-storey extension was constructed on the north side of Macdonald-Harrington to provide more lab space for the growing chemistry department. In 1987, the entire section underwent major renovations by the Montreal architecture firm, Arcop, founded by graduates and professors at the McGill School of Architecture, and the building shifted ownership from the Department of Chemistry to the Schools of Architecture and Urban Planning, which it continues to function under today.[2]
Layout
Since 1987, the Macdonald-Harrington building has provided the McGill Schools of Architecture and Urban Planning with the necessary space for undergraduate and graduate studios alike. The building contains 7 floors, including a basement and two-storey annex appended to the north side of the building. The first floor can be accessed via the main staircase on the building's western facade, while the ground floor is accessed from the Frank Dawson Adams (FDA) building from the south.
The basement contains the workshop, laser cutting room, archive room, light room (photography studio) and dark room.[citation needed] These services are offered free-of-charge to architecture and urban planning students in the building. The ground floor contains the lecture hall (G-10) dedicated to guest lectures, an engineering microcomputing facility, the media centre, the architecture lounge (known as “the cellar”) and an architecture supply store.[6] The latter two are managed by the Architecture Students’ Association.[7]
The main entrance of the building opens up onto the first floor which contains the three exhibition rooms, the porter’s office, an IT lab and the second year undergraduate studio. The second floor hosts the main classroom for architecture students (212) as well as the first year undergraduate studio. It also contains the administrative offices, two conference rooms, one office and the post-professional and Ph.D studio. The third floor contains the rest of the full-time teaching staff offices, the two third year undergraduate studios and the Architecture Slide Library.[8] The fourth floor is dedicated to the School of Urban Planning and contains their administrative offices, IT lab, graduate studio, teaching staff offices and conference room. The fifth floor is dedicated to the Master of Architecture program and contains their three studios and a large multi-purpose space.
Architecture
The Macdonald-Harrington Building was designed by Sir Andrew Taylor in
See also
References
- ^ "Taylor, Sir Andrew Thomas". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ^ a b c "Macdonald-Harrington Building (formerly Macdonald Chemistry Building)". Canadian Architecture Collection, McGill Archives. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ^ "Taylor, Andrew Thomas". Biographic Dictionary of Architects in Canada 1800–1950. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ^ "Macdonald-Harrington Building". Faculty of Engineering, McGill University. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ^ "Harrington, Bernard James". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ^ "Media Centre". Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ^ "Student Groups & Associations, Faculty of Engineering". Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ^ "Architecture Slide Library". Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture. Retrieved 18 March 2020.