University of Toronto Faculty of Pharmacy
| Leslie L. Dan Pharmacy Building | |
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| General information | |
| Type |
Educational institution Research facility |
| Architectural style |
Modernism Curtain wall façade |
| Location | Downtown Toronto, Ontario |
| Address | 144 College St. |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: 43°39′35.406″N 79°23′28.04″W / 43.65983500°N 79.3911222°W |
| Current tenants | Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy |
| Construction started | 28 April 2003 |
| Completed | 2006 |
| Inaugurated | 6 September 2006 |
| Cost | $75 million CAD |
| Client | University of Toronto |
| Height | 56 metres (184 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 15 (12 aboveground) |
| Floor area | 16,836 square metres (181,221 sq ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect |
Stephen Best Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank |
| Architecture firm |
Foster and Partners Moffat Kinoshita Architects |
| Structural engineer | Halcrow Yolles |
| Other designers |
Claude Engle (Lighting consultant) Stantec Consulting Ltd. (Project manager) H.H. Angus & Associates (mechanical/electrical consultants) |
| Quantity surveyor | Vermeulens Cost Consultant |
| Main contractor | PCL Constructors Canada Inc. |
| References | |
The Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy is a pharmacy school and an academic division of the University of Toronto. The faculty is located on the northwestern corner of College Street and University Avenue, placing it across from the Ontario Legislative Building and at the entrance to Queen's Park station. It is also situated 1-2 blocks away from four internationally renowned hospitals — the Hospital for Sick Children, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto General Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital. It is part of Toronto's Discovery District.
The Faculty of Pharmacy Building is an award-winning structure and a state-of-the-art facility in terms of both its educational facilities and its architectural design. It is particularly notable for its two orb-shaped classrooms, referred to as the "pods", which are suspended lecture halls. The pods are lit at night with coloured stage lights visible from afar, giving the building a "Star Trek feel". Likened to giant glowing pills, the pods are reason #113 to love Toronto, and have been deemed "something of a local landmark."
The Pharmacy Building has received international coverage and awards, in part because of its design team, including world-famous Sir Norman Foster and Claude Engle, as well as its high-profile sponsor Leslie Dan. It was also featured on the cover of, as well as profiled in, the book Detail In Process.
The Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto began in 1853, when the Ontario College of Pharmacy (now Pharmacists) who first operated at the school had merged into the school curriculum. By 1868, the pharmacy program consisted of only a few evenings of voluntary classes, with no practically prerequisite classes. However, the long, tradition apprenticeship of this professional field had pressed a strong emphasis onto the students. Today, the program has evolved into “a compulsory, four-year second-entry scientific and professional university course with a supervised period of professional practice.” The organization of this program has become significantly more structured. This change in focus strayed away from the predominant emphasis of the practice of training through an apprenticeship to today’s emphasis of a theoretical study and application of those skills in real-life situations. Students are better equipped with the skills which are required to meet the present needs of the profession. The University of Toronto was the only school in Ontario to offer a pharmacy education until the opening of the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy in 2008.
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