I went to the U of A, I started just before the business building there was built. I recall it was fantastic to have our own new building there then with almost everything in one place and this new building will be a great thing for MacEwan too.
An aside concerning the U of A Business building ... my dad taught in the Arts building at the time the new business building was going in. He led the Language Lab, and there was a proposal to put a skywalk between the two buildings.
The diagonal stretch will be closed in order to create a 'rectangular' building site.
From that render, the exterior reminisced the CN tower. I'm curious if that was considered in their design as it was the former CN yard.
While I appreciated some of the U of A pedways, especially on the colder days, that proposed skywalk would have been terrible. The university administrators then did not always have good ideas, fortunately he and perhaps the cockroaches made them come to their senses - great story!An aside concerning the U of A Business building ... my dad taught in the Arts building at the time the new business building was going in. He led the Language Lab, and there was a proposal to put a skywalk between the two buildings.
Most people in the Arts building were horrified at the idea, mostly that it would ruin the Arts building's historic exterior. He wrote many a letter opposing the proposal to the university president. And in more than one, he included photocopies of cockroaches he and his staff caught in the basement to warn "If you put up a bridge, these will end up in your nice new building."
You wouldn't happen to be in a certain policy studies master's cohort, would you? Because I heard a very similar thing today from a Macewan employee too haha
Knowing her (our version of Trump) - she'll put it in some southern boondock town where the population is 100% uneducated, blue collar, anti vac'er types......the only demographic she seems to be appeasing..
