Design
The second tallest building on the McGill Campus, Burnside Hall was completed in 1970. It was designed in the Brutalist style, by Marshall, Merrett and Associates. Many McGill students consider the building to be ugly as a result of its very simple "totalitarian" design, and the gradually decaying cement.
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