Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

Location:

1825 Main Mall

Date:

1995

Architect:

Peter Cardew

Cost:

n/a

Sources of funds:

Gift from Morris and Helen Belkin

Architectural features:

The exterior of the building is a concordance of planes, curves and angles in white brick, green glass, and grey glass and grey metal. The planes of white brick common area is incorporated in the Modernist university structure in which sharp, unwindowed corners, the gleaming, blank brick tower, the sweep of uninterrupted wall, are usually bottomed and capped firmly with grey lines of masonry.

Construction Type:

High headroom, steel frame with cerestory windows; in-situ concrete and grey brick walls.

Building users:

Faculty of Arts and the public

Notes:

It won the Canadian Architect Yearbook Award. It includes the curatorial and administration offices, meeting room, archives and open-plan storage and preparation areas.

Sources:

Fine Arts Pamphlet Files; UBC Buildings (Campus Planning)

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