Official Opening For Architecture School

By: Nick Liard

After more than 10 years of planning, five years of design and construction and 45 million dollars, the Laurentian University McEwen School Of Architecture is officially open.

It’s the first architecture school open in Canada in 45 years and is the first in Northern Ontario.

Founding Director Terrance Galvin says the school has a northern look and feel, and it’s for a reason, the goal is to bring students from across the north so they don’t have to travel far from home.

The downtown core has no doubt been changed with the 72 thousand square foot facility as a packed house was on hand today to help open the school.

A facility that Sudbury MPP Glenn Thibeault says give a face-lift to the area.

Galvin says as an architect the building is a dream come true.

The school will see enrolment rise to 400 students by 2018 with 25 faculty and staff.

That’s expected to grow as well because the school Education Minister Deb Matthews was on hand to announce they she stamped approval for the Master of Architecture graduate program which will launch in September.

The charter class started in 2013 and in June will be the first class of the school to walk across the stage.