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Students returning to
Capilano College this fall
found themselves on a
different campus from the
one they left in April.
With the completion of a
·s9 million multi-purpose
building, the campus space
has increased by 50 per cent.
Eighty per cent of the
campus has been moved
around, and even longtime
veterans of the college will
be wondering where a few
things are.
The 105,000 square foot
building has been a long time
in coming, and will relieve
the chronic space shortage
at the college.
"We were bulging at the
seams," Alan Smith, director
of planning, said recently.
"The building will create
instructional space for new
and growing programs as
well as providing better
s p a c e.
for
ex i s t i n g
programs."
Smith sees greatly im­
proved instructional lab
space, better faculty office

space and a consolidation of
services as the three major
benefits of the ne'!. building.
The library and media
resources centre, previously
split in two, is now housed in
one building.
T h e l o n g , n a r r ow
building, designed by ar­
chitect Ron Howard, follows
the contour of the hill, and
has several skylights and a
courtyard to bring daylight.
into as , many classes as
possible.
Capilano College began as
a small collection of portable
buildings at West Vancouver
Secondary School. When the
college campus moved to the
Lynnmour campus in 1973
many of the portables were
moved and used as tem­
porary buildings. In the
tradition of temporary
buildings, they have served
the purposes of permanent
classrooms ever since.
The college has been
upgrading their temporary
buildings at a cost of S3.5
million.