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The Dentistry & Pharmacy Building in the heart of the University of Alberta is currently undergoing some surgery work of its own that will see a brand new filling in behind the original building.
Crews have been drilling away at the later expansions of the building since June last year, leaving only the original 1921 building intact. A prescription is now being filled for a glossy new 7-storey addition designed by GEC Architecture that will contain new teaching, academic, and administrative spaces.
Renderings of the addition show a geometric-patterned curtainwall evocative of Calgary's new Central Library, in a volume that "floats" above a transition zone made up of some walls retained form the previous wing extensions.
The original building was constructed in 1921 as the Faculty of Medicine, and has seen numerous expansions over the years: two wing extensions built in 1946-47, a major addition of the centre wing in 1958, and a Safe Low Power Kritical Experiment (SLOWPOKE) nuclear facility built in 1977 (decommissioned in 2018).
The $249-million redevelopment is expected to be completed in 2022, coinciding approximately with the 100th anniversary of the original.
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