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REMEMBER WHEN?

A new take
on a heritage
building
The Centre for Urban
Innovation finds a home
in Toronto's first Ontario
College of Pharmacy

in february, Ryerson announced
plans for a new Centre for Urban
Innovation (CUI), a 40,000-square-foot
research and commercialization hub
focused on urban infrastructure issues set
to open in September 2018. The centre
will be in the former theatre school at
44 Gerrard St. East. The site has a storied
history in Toronto - built in 1886, it was
the first permanent facility for the Ontario
College of Pharmacy. At the time of the
college's construction, a 19th-century
Presbyterian Church sat to the west of
44 Gerrard St. East; it was demolished in
the 1970s and replaced with a 34-storey
apartment building.

In 1963, Ryerson acquired the College
of Pharmacy site, using it for the
university's department of architectural
technology, performance and journalism
programs. The School of Journalism
moved out in 1980. In preparation for the
new CUI, the School of Performance
moved to the Student Learning Centre in
October 2016. The proposed alterations
for 44 Gerrard St. East include a threestorey addition on the north and a fivestorey addition to the south. The proposal
will conserve the heritage resources by
retaining the original 1886/1891 building in
its entirety and a substantial portion of the
1940s addition.- by Antoinette Mercurio

PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES

Ontario College of
Pharmacy 1910-1920.

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