Toronto Humber College Lakeshore Campus: Welcome Centre | ?m | 4s | Moriyama & Teshima

[AlbertC]

http://www.insidetoronto.com/news/l...e-outlines-futures-plans-for-lakeshore-campus

Humber College outlines futures plans for Lakeshore Campus

CYNTHIA REASON |Nov 18, 2011 - 8:57 AM

Humber College officials met with their Lakeshore Campus neighbours this week to discuss long-term revitalization plans to accommodate their ever-growing student population - including the construction of a Welcome Centre and a new 150,000-sq. ft. building.

Of Humber's current slate of 25,000 full-time students, 7,000 are currently attending the Lakeshore Campus and those numbers are only expected to increase in the years to come, said Humber president John Davies.

Davies estimated the student population at the Lakeshore Campus will eventually cap out at 10,000 - a 3,000-pupil increase from their current numbers - because "there isn't really any space in this area for much more than that."

"We are absolutely aware that we have a certain amount of land to work with and that we have a community that we have to be a part of," he added.

1. Post-2014, Humber plans to build a 150,000 sq. ft. building along the south end of Twenty-Third Street, developing the building so there's a two-storey street edge, stepping back to an additional three storeys. Also proposed is a multi-decked parking garage on the site, increasing parking from 650 to 1,500 parking spaces. The parking deck and new building would be accessed from Lake Shore Boulevard West at Twentieth Street.

2. Proposed plans for a Welcome Centre along Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive (on the northwest corner at Lake Shore Boulevard West) are still "very conceptual" at this point, Valens said, but also very necessary. The plan is to develop the centre with short-term underground parking, which would allow visitors "to arrive, find out what the campus is all about, and basically find out where they need to go," Valens said, noting that the facility would also eventually house registration, test centres and counselling.

 

[interchange42]

Ground has been broken for the Welcome Centre mentioned above. A dataBase file has been established and is linked at the top this page, while a front page story on this building and the new Athletics Centre can be found here.

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[AlvinofDiaspar]

Looks pretty impressively Modern - didn't strike me as a typical M&T design.

AoD

 

[salsa]

There's also a webcam for this: http://192.75.71.60/view/viewer_index.shtml?id=0

 

[salsa]

 

[interchange42]

From yesterday:

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[Jasonzed]

 

[WislaHD]

Google Streetview from 2017

 

[Northern Light]

Something new is happening at this site......... The building isn't even that old ........

Could be just on the park-like space out to the corner, or could involve the existing building, not sure.

But lobbying activity is as follows:

 

[Amare]

This building always struck me as a waste of prime real estate. Severely underbuilt for the space it takes up, and doesnt strike me at all as a "welcome centre" or student centre.

If i'm taking a guess, maybe they plan on building outwards to the east to "fill out" the building's frame.