CIGI Campus | Blackwell Structural Engineers

Program

This graduate school is devoted to international affairs and global governance. Our project was a joint partnership between CIGI (Centre for International Governance Innovation), Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo. The design of this new build is a contemporary take on the classic “Oxbridge” campus style, centred around a landscaped courtyard and bell tower. The structure of the three-storey academic wings is comprised of Bubbledeck slabs (poured in place, biaxial, voided); the auditorium, complete with a soaring, 11-metre long cantilevered canopy, employs pre-cast concrete bearing walls with a steel framed roof structure supporting an extensive green roof.

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