Initial Master Plan - continued

	Architect's sketch plans for three optional campus layouts, 1954.
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In the end, it is said, a financial compromise involving site utilities and other matters lead to the expropriation resolution being rescinded. On 11 January 1954 the building advisory committee heard a report that the FDC had finally lifted its motion.

With the "college site snag" resolved, physical planning activities began to address the problems of conceptualizing and building a new campus. The fifth meeting of the building committee, 13 January 1954, recommended that Carleton ask a group of Canadian architectural firms to form an association to plan and to supervise construction of the new site.

In late January 1954, the College architect Watson Balharrie described the future location of buildings and how expansion might proceed. He described two opposing principles: one involving closely-knit and interconnected buildings were completely separate.

		Perspective renderings of the proposed main court (current quadrangle) 1957. Watson Balharrie.
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At that time "a recommendation was not made" concerning a choice between the two. While both these master plan schemes from the previous year used the principle of interconnected buildings, there is no record these 1953 proposals were ever discussed in committee meetings.