Buildings & Grounds

The physical evolution of the Point Grey campus

Documenting the history of UBC’s “built environment”: buildings, public spaces, landscaping, and campus planning.

• UBC Buildings (1911-present):
  • Chronological Index
  • Alphabetical Index
  • Photographs (use subject terms such as “building” or “grounds”, or search for specific buildings or locations)
• Trees on Campus
  • Campus Trees – A Self-Guided Tour (as of 1980)
  • Graduating Class Tree Plantings (1919-present)
• Main Library Architectural Drawings
• Commemorative Naming of UBC Facilities and Spaces
• Campus Plans
• Fire Insurance Plans of the University
• University Campus and University Endowment Lands (inventory)
• “UBC Campus & Endowment Lands” Subject Guide (UBC Music Art and Architecture Library)
• “Recovering the University Fabric”
• War Memorial Gymnasium (virtual display)
• Leon & Thea Koerner University Centre (virtual display)
• UBC Campus Sculptures (virtual display)
• The Evolving Campus 1914-1973 (virtual display)
• “New University Buildings, Province of British Columbia” (March 1913 article published in Construction: a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada) (Internet Archive)
• “Planning the British Columbia University Endowment Lands” (December 1926 article published in Town Planning: the journal of the Town Planning Institute of Canada)