University to transform empty offices into urban-school offshoot

The University of Calgary is moving its School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape into a downtown building from a suburban campus, thanks to an innovative city program targeted at finding new uses for excess vacant office space.

“We’re bursting at the seams because we’ve just created a new bachelor of design in city innovation degree program, so we desperately need more space for 1,200 students,” says John Brown, the faculty’s dean at the University of Calgary.