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Brightening up SFU Burnaby campus’ aesthetics

By: Anindita Gupta Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby campus is a beautiful one — under the right conditions. SFU Burnaby campus’ chief designer, Arthur Erickson, did not design prisons for a living, but the idea that he did so is incredibly widespread, likely due to how miserable the premises look at all other times. In the summer, the sunshine takes over the greyness of the buildings, and the warmth and the cool wind overthrow the gloom of the structures. But the weather throughout the rest of the year, full of rain, cold, and snow, combines with the brutalistic architecture to produce…

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