Elliott Building (1963 and 64)

Architect: W.R.H. Curtis, Provincial Department of Public Works

The main structure is a reinforced concrete building, with pre-cast concrete panels on the exterior. The building was actually planned and designed for the Lansdowne Campus of Victoria College. Publics works architects were slow to abandon the late Moderne style with Deco touches which had been the hallmark of the Whittaker era of the 1940s. Abstract crenelations at the roof line are perhaps intended as subtle Medievalisms. The original occupants were the Departments of Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Astronomy is noted by the roof-top observatory. The adjoining "Elliott Lecture Theatre," is a one-storey reinforced concrete building with a folded concrete plate roof that provides a clerestorey for the interior central concourse.