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The basement contains the largest classrooms, under the building's concrete terrace. The basement also provides a study space open to students 24/7, and is one of the most popular locations on campus for tutorials, group study, and lunch. It contains a café, computer labs, tables and sofas. The first
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Burnside is located south of the Macdonald-Stewart Library (formerly the Macdonald Physics Building), southeast of the Pulp and Paper Research Institute and northeast of the Otto Maass Chemistry Building. Burnside connects to these buildings through an underground tunnel system, and can also be
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is located on three floors of Burnside Hall, the Department of Geography occupies floors three through seven with the Walter Hitschfeld Geographic Information Centre (GIC) on floor five, while the
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The roof contains meteorological equipment belonging to the Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences for the study of wind, clouds and precipitation in the city. This equipment includes a
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floor is used as a lobby and the second floor belongs to the Computing Centre, which contains a wide variety of computing and graphic laboratories and facilities. The
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slabs with fixed, glazed windows throughout. Its concrete shell was intended to blend well with the colour and texture of other buildings on campus, namely the
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accessed from the outside directly from McGill's Lower Field through the building's main entrance.
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The Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences in Burnside Hall
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Brutalism
Sherbrooke Street
Montreal
Quebec
Coordinates
45°30′17″N 73°34′30″W / 45.5048°N 73.5749°W / 45.5048; -73.5749
McGill University
Marshall, Merrett, and Associates
French
McGill University building
Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal
Quebec
Burnside Place
James McGill
Merrett
Faculty of Science
Brutalist
Roddick Gates
Departments of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
Mathematics and Statistics

Burnside Place
James McGill
Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
radar wind profiler
laser ceilometer
Brutalist

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