| Architect |
Fleming &
Smith |
| Date
Built |
1959 |
| Location |
Rue
University |
| Description |
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The McGill University website says that the
McConnell Building was, "...
donated to McGill in 1959 by John W.
McConnell, a major benefactor of the
University since 1911 and one of its
Governors from 1928 until 1958. In the
period after World War II when all of
the Engineering Faculties were greatly
expanding, this nine-storey structure
doubled the number of classrooms,
lecture rooms, and offices available for
use by the above faculties. ....  ... (it) features a modern use of concrete faced with stone, interrupted regularly by bands of windows. It is a very functional structure containing many labs and offices on all its floors and two large lecture theatres, one spanning the first and second floors, the other placed above it on the second and third floors." The only decoration on the building is a collection of three carvings each containing symbols related to aspects of Engineering.   |
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McConnell
Engineering Building, Montreal, Canada
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