Construction is slated to start within the next 30 days on the new
Munk School of Global Affairs on Bloor Street at Devonshire.
Architecture firm
KPMB will be working with builder
Govan Brown on the heritage building that started life as the University of Toronto's meteorological centre and served generations of students as the admissions office.
The cost of the whole project is about $13.6 million, according to U of T's chief real estate officer, Nadeem Shabbar.
"There will be some landscaping done as well," he says, and we'll make the building accessible, because currently, it's not. We're going to put an elevator in the back of the building."
Because it's a heritage building, its fa�ade will remain unchanged.
Shabbar says the target is to complete the project by the summer of 2011.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Nadeem Shabbar
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