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The most
eventful thing that happened then, with respect to his future
career, was joining Geoffrey Massey in preparing a design for the
new Simon Fraser University atop Burnaby Mountain in 1963. Their
proposal, totally different from the usual pattern of separate
departmental buildings spotted about on a campus, consisted of a
grand pedestrian mall through a massive grouping of activities in
relatively continuous buildings like a great acropolis. Near the
library and lecture halls, where the student density would likely be
highest, the great mall was to be covered by a splendid canopy at a
surprising scale. |