The plans for the Academic Resource Centre were unveiled in 1998. The ARC opened in 2003, built in time to accommodate the “baby boom echo generation” and double cohort (source: “Historical Timeline” University of Toronto Scarborough About Us, accessed on February 24, 2022 at https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/aboutus/historical-timeline). The V. W. Bladen Library was demolished to make way for the new UTSC Library, along with the Doris McCarthy Gallery, smaller classrooms, and a 500-seat lecture hall, AC223.
This building was designed by the architect Brian MacKay-Lyons in order to “house the intellectual heart of the campus” within a “well-articulated industrial shed.” (source: Terri Whitehead, “Brian MacKay-Lyons Architect’s Rationalist Academic Resource Centre Contrasts Elegantly with a 1960s University of Toronto Campus,” Architectural Record 192, no. 8, 2004).
The architectural designs and materials of the building, such as its copper exterior and exposed concrete infill walls, both compliments and contrasts against the appearance of the Andrews Building (source: Terri Whitehead, “Brian MacKay-Lyons Architect’s Rationalist Academic Resource Centre Contrasts Elegantly with a 1960s University of Toronto Campus,” Architectural Record 192, no. 8, 2004).
To the left is the view from an upper hallway in the ARC, as of 2022.
Page Bibliography
No author listed. “Historical Timeline.” University of Toronto Scarborough About Us. Accessed on February 24, 2022 at https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/aboutus/historical-timeline.
Whitehead, Terri. “Brian MacKay-Lyons Architect’s Rationalist Academic Resource Centre Contrasts Elegantly with a 1960s University of Toronto Campus.” Architectural Record 192, no. 8, (2004).
Images
University of Toronto Scarborough Library, Archives & Special Collections, UTSC Archives Legacy Collection, Box 1 – File 3. https://collections.digital.utsc.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/utsc%3A137.
University of Toronto Scarborough Library, Archives & Special Collections, UTSC Archives Legacy Collection, Box 2 – File 7. https://collections.digital.utsc.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/utsc%3A43.
University of Toronto Scarborough Library, Archives & Special Collections, UTSC Archives Legacy Collection, Box 2 – File 4. https://collections.digital.utsc.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/utsc%3A177.
University of Toronto Scarborough Library, Archives & Special Collections, UTSC Archives Legacy Collection, Box 3 – File 20. https://collections.digital.utsc.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/utsc%3A405.
All photos from 2022 were taken by Maria Bacchus
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- Bibliography
- Bladen Wing
- Environmental Science and Chemistry Building – EV
- Highland Hall – HL
- Instructional Centre – IC
- Introduction
- Leigha Lee Browne Theatre
- Library
- N’Sheemaehn Child Care Centre
- Residences
- Science Research Building – SY
- Social Sciences Building – MW
- Student Centre – SL
- SuperBuild – A New Phase of UTSC
- The Original Scarborough College
- Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre – TPASC