عکس هایی زیبا از جدیدترین و زیباترین ساختمان های جهان از 2010به بعد

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سلام.در این تایپیک ساختمانهای زیبای جهان ر میزارم همراه با پلا ناشون.برای مشاهده روی فایل ضمیمه کلیک و سپس دانلود نمایید.باتشکر

 

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موزه هنر زیبا در تلاویو

موزه هنر زیبا در تلاویو

 

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Vodafone Headquarters / Barbosa & Guimarães

Vodafone Headquarters / Barbosa & Guimarães

Architects: Barbosa & Guimarães
Location: Porto, Portugal
Principals in Charge: José António Barbosa, Pedro Lopes Guimarães
Collaborators: Ana Campante, Ana Carvalho, Ana Mota, Daniela Teixeira, Eunice Lopes, Filipe Secca, Henrique Dias, Hugo Abreu, Nuno Felgar, José Marques, Miguel Pimenta, Pablo Rebelo, Paula Fonseca, Paulo Lima, Raul Andrade, Sara Caruso
Client: Vodafone
Structure: Afaconsult / Carlos Quinaz
Hydraulic: Afaconsult / Marta Peleteiro
Electrical: RGA / Luis Fernandes
Mechanical; RGA / Pedro Albuquerque
Contractor: Teixeira Duarte
ConstructionManagement: Pedro Coelho
Project Year: 2006-2008
Construction Year: 2007-2010
Photographs: FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

 

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colaboration of students of AEFAUP

colaboration of students of AEFAUP

Architects: Diogo Aguiar & Teresa Otto
Location: Parque da Cidade, Porto, Portugal
Client: Associação de Estudantes da Faculdade de Arquitectura (AEFAUP)
Structure and other Specialties: Acústica F.E.S., Lda – Estruturas, Iluminação e Som, with the colaboration of students of AEFAUP.
Floor Area: 9 sqm
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar

 

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مشاهده پیوست 50996Architects: Diogo Aguiar & Teresa Otto
Location: Parque da Cidade, Porto, Portugal
Client: Associação de Estudantes da Faculdade de Arquitectura (AEFAUP)
Structure and other Specialties: Acústica F.E.S., Lda – Estruturas, Iluminação e Som, with the colaboration of students of AEFAUP.
Floor Area: 9 sqm
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar
مشاهده پیوست 50995

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© Courtesy of Josef Weichenberger Architects

© Courtesy of Josef Weichenberger Architects

© Courtesy of Josef Weichenberger Architects
Architects: Josef Weichenberger Architects
Location: Vienna, Austria
Project area: 3,050 sqm
Project year: 2006 – 2009
Photographs: Lisa Rastl, Josef Weichenberger Architectsبرا یدانلود پلانها وعکسها ی بیشتر یا کیفیت بالا رو ی فایل ضمیمه کلیک کنید

 

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Temporary Extension for the University Pompeu Fabra f451 Arquitecturaاینم یه نمونه کامل برا تحویل پروژه

Temporary Extension for the University Pompeu Fabra f451 Arquitecturaاینم یه نمونه کامل برا تحویل پروژه

Architects: f451 Arquitectura
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Project Year: 2006
Design team: Santiago Ibarra, Toni Montes, Lluis Ortega, Xavier Osarte, Esther Segura
Quantity Surveyor: J. Hierro-Tram
Structure: NATEC
Mechanical: AIA
Photographs: José Hevia
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Modular Arts / Heliotrope Architects

Modular Arts / Heliotrope Architects

Modular Arts / Heliotrope Architects
Modular Arts is a Seattle-based company that designs and produces technologically advanced gypsum based 3-dimensional wall panel materials used by designers worldwide. Their growing business recently relocated to a light-industrial building with accommodations for both office and manufacturing functions. Heliotrope Architects was brought in to collaborate on the office interior tenant improvement, which required replacement of all existing finishes, systems and furnishings.
Architect: Heliotrope Architects
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Project Area: 2,200 sqf
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Sean Airhart
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Endless House / Friedrick Kieslerعکس هایی رویایی از خانه ای روییایتر

Endless House / Friedrick Kieslerعکس هایی رویایی از خانه ای روییایتر

Location: Unbuilt
Project Year: 1924-1950
References: Friedrick Kiesler, Matthew Krissel
Photographs: Friedrick Kiesler, Matthew Krissel

 

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عکسها و پلان از کتابخانه ای در 2010Casiraghi Gorizia Mediatheque / Waltritsch a+u

عکسها و پلان از کتابخانه ای در 2010Casiraghi Gorizia Mediatheque / Waltritsch a+u

Architects: Waltritsch a+u
Location: Gorizia, Italy
Director in Charge: Arch. Dimitri Waltritsch
Project Team: Dimitri Waltritsch and Federico Gori, Leonardo De Marchi, Cecilia Morassi
Façade Main Contractor: Seretti srl, San giorgio di Nogaro
Interior Main Contractor: SZ arredamenti, Cervignano
Project Area: 500 sqm
Project Year: 2009-2010
Photographs: Marco Covi. Trieste (© Dimitri Waltritsch)

 

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Companies Incubator / Contemporâneaپلان و عکس از ویلایی دیدنی

Companies Incubator / Contemporâneaپلان و عکس از ویلایی دیدنی

Architects: Contemporânea / Manuel Graça Dias + Egas José Vieira
Location: Vila Verde, Braga, Portugal
Coordination: Duarte Correia, Architect
Collaborators: Sara Baptista, Marta Quinaz, Architects
Client: Instituto Empresarial do Minho
Construction: ACF, SA
Supervision: Lurdes Marques, Engineer
Models: José António Aires Pereira
Project Year: 2005-2007
Photographs: FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

 

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The Cornerstone / JAJA Architects ApS

The Cornerstone / JAJA Architects ApS



The Cornerstone / JAJA Architects ApS




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In our latest AD Futures, we introduced JAJA Architects, an up-and-coming Danish firm. The backgrounds of the firm’s three principals (Norwegian, Danish, Japanese, Thai and Swiss) form an interesting design aesthetic, as their influences fuse together to make a strong statement. The young firm recently won a competition for a mix-use building in Denmark with their proposal entitled the Cornerstone – an office building that gives Vanløse a new visual anchor point and a place where people can meet to see the urban life unfold.
More about the winning design after the break.
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Currently being approved by the municipality of Copenhagen, the building will act as a catalyst for urban activity, as public space surrounds the entire built structure. The architects image the building “contributing to the area’s diversity as a building object that creates public space in front, below and behind it.”
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The building’s site is an important point of entrance to the city center, marking the transition between the area’s diverse and fragmented buildings. The context includes a sampling of different typologies, small and large residences, apartments, a future shopping mall and a station. ”This fragmented and diverse character gives the intersection the characteristic of being an overlooked void space between the area’s many different components,” explained the architects.
As a way to unify the fragmentation, the void will be transformed into an urban space called Apollo Plads that will extend into the landscape and create the plinth where the Cornerstone rests. ”This is a good starting point to create a place that can unify the area and ascribe it a special identity and quality.”
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Although conceived as a solitary building, the Cornerstone is closely tied to its public areas, allow city goers to interact with Vanløse’s newest landmark.
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Diagram © JAJA

 

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ساختمانهای آیندهAD Futures #7: JaJa

ساختمانهای آیندهAD Futures #7: JaJa

AD Futures #7: JaJa

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We are back with AD Futures, our series of articles that feature the most innovative young practices around the world, practices that i´m betting on their future.
This week, i present you JaJa, a Danish practice funded by Jakob Christensen and Jan Tanaka, the two Ja’s. Why did i pick them?

• They are very young (pretty obvious for this section, but still worth mentioning).
• They are doing some interesting designs, exploring different shapes and concepts, always challenging traditional program schemes.
• They got the 4th place on the Stockholm Public Library expansion competition, a project with an interesting section.
• They just got a site and a grant for their own non-profit project: The Watchmans Hut. Architectural entrepreneurs.
• They make a good use of their blog.

It´s funny how we found them, as someone recommended them on our Facebook group when we featured their Ormen Lange project.
And now onto two of their recent competitions, Book Hill and Hatlehol Church:

Book Hill


Program: Library – extension of Stockholm Public Library
Size: 17.000 m2 (9.000 m2 existing building)
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Type: Open 2-stage competition – short-listed amongst 1176 proposals.
Year: 2007
Status: Settled – fourth prize
Unfolding the full potential of both building and site, The Book Hill creates a coherent functional and programmatic composition that ensures a clear internal organization while merging the surrounding area into a unified entity.
The Site

Today, the site is characterized by the unfulfilled potentials of the inaccessible Observatory Hill and the programmatically dysfunctional Public Library.
The Observatory Hill is a green island perforating the urban fabric and is one of the city’s highest natural points with outstanding views of the Stockholm roofscape. But the steepness of the hill renders the hilltop inaccessible and under-used.
At the foot of the hill stands the iconic Asplund library and its three detached annexes which programmatically seperates the library into four unconnected buildings.
The New Stockholm Library

Instead of keeping the impractical annexes, we suggest an extension that programmatically brings The New Stockholm Public Library into one.

We propose to organize the new extension as a continuous boulevard starting from street level, then rising to the Asplund Rotunda and finally linking it to the Observatory Hill top, thus creating a transition between landscape and urban fabric.

The New Stockholm Public Library will be an urban mediascape where landscape and building, interior and exterior, old and new merges into one single entity.
The Media Boulevard and Short Cut

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Fiction and scientific literature is divided into two. Asplunds Library will continue to house the entire fiction collection while the Book Hill is designed to hold the scientific literature.
In the Book Hill, the media is placed in a continuous order – like a string of pearls running through the entire building – forming the Media Boulevard and establishing a crystal clear organization to give the vi sitor an overview and a feeling of togetherness.
The Media Boulevard is like an internal winding road shaped by the contours of the building. It is conceived as a system of gently sloping 1:20 ramps where media, staff and visitors flow freely through the entire library creating an environment of meetings, knowledge and information.

Walking along the Media Boulevard, the visitor will encounter an unfolding of various spatial and programmatic experiences as one passes by the Main Entrance, Auditorium Foyer, Library Café Institute of Children’s Books, Learning Zone and finally the Observatory Restaurant. All of it leaves an impression of a diverse and lively Public Library.

The Media Boulevard is intersected by a Short Cut. The Short Cut is the spine of the Book Hill and is the axis connecting the main entrance directly to the Observatory Hill. The Short Cut is the rational route through the library – minimizing the distance from A to B.
The winding Media Boulevard and the rational Short Cut creates a combination of clear organization of media and efficient layout of movement.
The Roof Promenade

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The roof of the Book Hill is a Roof Promenade with various library activities along the facade on one side and a view of the city on the other. One will feel the presence of the library during the entire walk along the promenade as activities from the Library Café, Learning Zone, Readers Garden and Observatory Restaurant inhabits the promenade. Passer-bys are invited in for spontaneous making The New Stockholm Public Library a part of the daily city life and an integral part of the city 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year.
Hatlehol Church


Program: Church
Size: 2.300 m2
Location: Ålesund, Norway
Type: Open competition
Year: 2009
Status: Settled

The Hatlehol Church is inspired the idea of the relation between heaven and earth. It is conceived as an extension of the existing landscape that stretches towards the heaven to form a peak and a new landmark for city and people. The Hatlehol Church will inscribe a new identity for the local community and become a beautiful space for religious, cultural and social activities.

The Hatlehol Church is placed on the highest part of the site and has its back and church tower against the main road. As travelers approach the church, they will experience the formal transition from landscape, arching roof and the tower.

The visitors, on the other hand, will experience the spatial relation between landscape, building, church hall and church tower.

As the congregation arrives, they will be able to glimpse the church tower amongst the treetops. From the parking lot, footpaths invite people in for a walk along the contours of the landscape where paths dances between the trees on their way to entrance. Standing on the church plaza in front of the entrance, it feels like standing at the foot of a mountain where the peak glides down to form the entrance.
Stepping into the lobby, the visitor will feel how the rising roof creates a natural spatial sequence that invites people into the church hall. In the church hall, the arched shape of the vast roof creates an experience of standing under a fantastic cloud formation that generously filters daylight in.

Like drifting clouds where the sun breaks through to light up the beautiful landscape, the church hall forms a beautiful meeting space for the congregation and God.

 

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AD Futures #6: Paisajes Emergentes


Aquatic Complex for Panamerican Games, Competition 1st prize, under construction
After a 2 week break, AD Futures is back to bring you the best young practices from around the world.
This time, I choose a practice based in Medellin, Colombia. Why did I choose them? Paisajes Emergentes (Emerging Landscapes) has a very unique approach to landscape architecture, which has made them win several competitions. Most of those competitions weren´t even landscape specific projects, yet the result is always a built environment which becomes a new landscape – not just limited to small interventions but as the base for the whole project: sports centers, parks, public facilities, libraries, etc.
Also, they have a very good representation technique, that in my opinion is able to transmit the proposed atmosphere the landscape will create over time, not as a brand new shiny project but as an evolving project becoming one with its location.
Enough of my words, and lets see the projects speak by themselves:

 

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Jardin de Jade Hangzhou / PAL Design Consultants

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Architects: PAL Design Consultants
Location: Hangzhou, China
Project year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of PAL Design Consultants
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Located in the heart of a new zone in Hangzhou, Jardin de Jade Restaurant will be designed in the concept of “Sweet Osmanthus” (Guihao) – a small simple pattern flower with a delightful fragrant that symbolize a breezy, young and vivacious personality in use to attract the interest of younger group of people.
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Applying the concept into the design, the layout plan of the space is designed irregularly with a cashew-shape to create a sense of curiosity. The VIP rooms at the main area are designed as mountain caves described in fairy tales, and together with the metal screen of fish pattern that represents the oriental opulent in river village, it creates a fun and an unforgettable dining experience.

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Whitney Museum / Marcel Breuer
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Containing one of the most reputable collections of American art from the 20 and 21st centuries, the Whitney Museum designed by Bauhaus-trained architect Marcel Breuer is an easily recognizable landmark of Manhattan. It is known for emphasizing exhibitions of work of living artists while also maintaining an extensive permanent collection of other important pieces from the first half of the century.
More on the Whitney Musuem by Marcel Breuer after the break.
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Architect: Marcel Breuer, Hamilton P. Smith
Location: Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Project Year: 1963-1966
Photographs: Andre Salvador, Ezra Stoller, Wikimedia Commons, New York Times
References: Ezra Stoller, Whitney

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Museum of Polish History / Ateliers O-S architectes

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Paris-based Ateliers O-S architectes shared with us their project for the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw. More images and architect’s description after the break.
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At the East access of Warsaw takes place an unusual building, overhanging the canyon of the highway. A combination of volumes connect the opposite banks, as a construction set.
The museum is composed as part of the landscape. Seven big entities, low square buildings containing each one a part of the program, cross the canyon in a sprawling shape. Other small entities are scattered all over the site, as info box or park pavilions.
The bigness of the project is decreased by the moderate dimensions of each entity, inspired by the scale of the Castle Uzajdow. This neighboring emblematic building hosts a contemporary art museum. The idea is to hang on the site, with a low building that got a flexible organization and shape.
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The museum is organized around the exhibition zone that takes place over the Aleja Armii Ludovej. On the north side the main access distribute the public forum zone and the zone of supplementary functions. On the south is located the private education and research zone department and the other one is public. The organization is simple, public on one side and private on the other, the exhibition zone makes the link.
The Museum Park takes place on the east side of the museum, as a continuity of the actual green landscape. It is bounded by two existing roads, replacing the actual bridge. On the west side, the park overhangs the highway. On the east side, the road is the main access to the museum by car.
The entities are introverted, to protect themselves from the noise of the highway. But they are not close to the outside, the facades operate like a filter, with possible view and lights. They could be made of perforate aluminium panels, according to the solar orientation and the noise of the surroundings. Green wide patios bring lights to the exhibition rooms, as a shelter a few meters over the highway.
model

Architects: Ateliers O-S architects
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Area: 20,300 sqm
Budget: 57,215,000 € HT
Date: Competition June 2009
Client: Polish Government
Images: Courtesy of Ateliers O-S architectes

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model concept schematics

 

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Museum of Polish History / Ateliers O-S architectes



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organization and shape.
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model

Architects: Ateliers O-S architects
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Area: 20,300 sqm
Budget: 57,215,000 € HT
Date: Competition June 2009
Client: Polish Government
Images: Courtesy of Ateliers O-S architectes

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model concept schematics

 

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Ripolles-Manrique House / Teo Hidalgo Nácher

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© José Hevia

Architects: Teo Hidalgo Nácher
Location: Castellón, Spain
Collaborating architects: Cecilia Moretti
Technical Architect: Felipe Garcia Amat
Contractor: Construcciones Sebastia
Project area: 440 sqm
Project year: 2009
Photographs: José Hevia
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© José Hevia

The site is surrounded by pine trees on an isolated estate that began being built in the seventies, near the town of Benicassim in Castellon, Spain. What really stands out about its location is the views.
The plot, with its steep slopes and irregular geometry, is situated on top of a hill overlooking the sea in the Montornés neighborhood. Its main access point is down a public road leading from above.
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first floor plan

Since the start of the project a robust working log has been in place and there has been an ongoing dialogue between the architect, the quantity surveyor and the owners. This collaborative style of working means that aspects of the project can be changed and details redefined over the course of the construction process.

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first floor plan section handrail detail

 

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Toronto campus. Designed by Snøhetta in collaboration with Zeidler Partnership Architects of Toronto, the 155,463sqf Student Learning Centre will feature a transparent glass skin that will provide varying light qualities within the interior spaces. Sustainable practices have also been incorporated into the design with 50% of the roof intended to act as a green roof and plans for the building to be LEED Silver compliant. Construction on the building is expected to begin late this year, with a targeted completion date of Winter 2014. More about the new Student Learning Centre including renderings following the break.
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The eight-storey Student Learning Centre boldly marks Ryerson’s new face on Yonge Street. It will feature a dazzling glass facade, a welcoming elevated plaza, a bridge to the existing library and a range of academic, study and collaborative spaces for Ryerson’s students, faculty and staff. Yonge Street frontage will feature destination retail at and below grade, creating a prominent commercial facade.
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“I am thrilled to present the first look at the inspirational design of our new Ryerson University Student Learning Centre,” said Levy. “The new Student Learning Centre will have a powerful impact on student learning, life on campus and the community. It’s a transformative, bold development and an important step forward in city building. We are very excited about what the Student Learning Centre will mean for Ryerson and for Toronto.” With links to the existing Library building, the Student Learning Centre will offer a variety of creative and inspiring learning environments and spaces. Every floor will have its own personality – some will be open and interpretive with flexible furniture and terraces while others will be densely filled with enclosed study rooms for groups of four to eight people. Space will be available for independent, quiet study and contemplation. With full digital support and accessible academic services, the Student Learning Centre will foster learning success and help promote a culture of collaboration and creativity among Ryerson students.
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“The Student Learning Centre will provide bright, open, technologically rich, barrier-free spaces for individual and collaborative study that will accommodate our students’ different learning styles and our faculties’ different teaching practices,” said Alan Shepard, Provost and Vice President Academic, Ryerson University. “It will provide our students with a welcoming, accessible, digitally connected space that is ready to adapt and accommodate new technologies, developments and services.” “The Student Learning Centre is one more step in realizing the vision established in the Ryerson master plan to wholly integrate the university’s campus with the city’s urban fabric,” said Tarek El-Khatib, Senior Partner, Zeidler. “The building will contribute to the retail and pedestrian life in the area and set the tone for ongoing revitalization in this historic commercial neighbourhood. A generous and inviting, entry plaza will gently draw both students and the general public up and into this new vertical community setting the standard for future development in the area.”
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“The notion that learning is a static, solitary activity is outmoded,” said, Craig Dykers, principal architect and co-founder, Snøhetta. “While it remains important to find places of introspection, it is also vitally important to create places where people can more actively seek knowledge, where social connections can intertwine and where all forms of activity, quiet and loud, can find a suitable home. The design of the Student Learning Centre is foremost about providing these new and diverse functions. “The Student Learning Centre will be a very special place where ideas are shaped and dreams come true. It will be a destination of choice for undergraduate and graduate students alike.”
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Support for the project from the Government of Ontario has been vital. “The Student Learning Centre would not be possible without the Government of Ontario’s investment of $45 million that was announced in 2008,” said Julia Hanigsberg, Vice-President, Administration and Finance, Ryerson University. “The government of Ontario’s transformative contribution represents more than just putting money into a building; it is creating a world-class facility that will touch thousands of Ontarians – our students, faculty, staff – for generations to come.”