Initial Master Plan - continued
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![](zoom.gif) | 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and other matters lead to the expropriation resolution being rescinded.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.
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![](zoom.gif) | 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.