Leslie L. Dan Building, University of Toronto, Canada

Architect	Foster + Partners
Date Built	2006
Location	College Street
Description
The Leslie L. Dan Pharmacy Building occupies a site on College Street, near the junction with University Avenue, on the campus of the University of Toronto. It serves, what Foster + Partners describe as, the largest pharmacy faculty in Canada with in excess of 1000 undergraduate and graduate students. The construction of the Leslie L. Dan building made it possible for the university to bring together departments that had hitherto been spread throughout the campus. The Foster + Partners website says of the building that it is,"... lifted above a 20m-high, five-storey, colonnaded circulation space, which matches the cornice heights of two neighbouring listed university buildings and the nearby Ontario Parliament Building. " The image above was posted on Wikimedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license - Click on the image to see details of the license. "Two reflective silver-coloured pods are suspended within the main space, which change colours according to the light conditions, adding a striking focal point for the faculty. The larger pod houses a 60-seat lecture theatre and a reading room, while the other houses a 24-seat classroom, a quiet study lounge for undergraduate students and the faculty lounge. Wet labs for postgraduate research are housed on the upper floors of the building." The image above was posted on Wikimedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. - Click on the image to see details of the license.