2005 – Le Quartier Concordia, Montreal, Quebec

Colleges campuses are notorious for requiring a lot of land, what if you built your college campus up not out? In 2001, Concordia University held a design competition to rehouse three major faculties. This, the winning design was designed to create vibrant ground plane and not turn inwards from its urban environment. It is a vertical campus of stacked three-storey atria with lounges to interconnect departments and encourage interdisciplinarity. Located directly above the Metro, both buildings feature light-filled underground spaces, connected to each other and to transit.

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