Burnside Hall (french: Pavillon Burnside) is a McGill University building located at 805

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, on the university's downtown campus in

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. It is named after Burnside Place, the Montreal estate of

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, the university's founder.Burnside Hall on the McGill Math Department site
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, the thirteen-storey building is constructed in Brutalist style and stands just northeast of the Roddick Gates, in the centre of McGill's campus. The building currently houses the Departments of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, Geography,

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, the Network and Communications Services (NCS), the Walter Hitschfeld Geographic Information Centre (GIC) and the Edward Rosenthall Mathematics & Statistics Libraries at the university.

Layout

Burnside is located south of the Macdonald-Stewart Library (formerly the Macdonald Physics Building), southeast of the Pulp and Paper Research Institute and northeast of the Otto Maass Chemistry Building. Burnside connects to these buildings through an underground tunnel system, and can also be accessed from the outside directly from McGill's Lower Field through the building's main entrance. The basement contains the largest classrooms, under the building's concrete terrace. The basement also provides a study space open to students 24/7, and is one of the most popular locations on campus for tutorials, group study, and lunch. It contains a café, computer labs, tables and sofas. The first floor is used as a lobby and the second floor belongs to the Computing Centre, which contains a wide variety of computing and graphic laboratories and facilities. The Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences is located on three floors of Burnside Hall, the Department of Geography occupies floors three through seven with the Walter Hitschfeld Geographic Information Centre (GIC) on floor five, while the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, the Network and Communications Services (NCS), and the Edward Rosenthall Mathematics & Statistics Libraries are located elsewhere within the building. The roof contains meteorological equipment belonging to the Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences for the study of wind, clouds and precipitation in the city. This equipment includes a radar wind profiler and a laser ceilometer.

Design

Burnside Hall was completed in 1970 in Brutalist style by the architecture firm Marshall, Merrett and Associates. The building contains no ornament on its facade, which comprises a repetitive pattern of

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slabs with fixed, glazed windows throughout. Its concrete shell was intended to blend well with the colour and texture of other buildings on campus, namely the Leacock Building and

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. The building was designed in a way that it could be expanded by an additional five storeys if need be.

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External links

Burnside Hall in Virtual McGillThe Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences in Burnside HallThe Department of Mathematics and Statistics
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